Increase access times?

Why do you want to increase access times? That'll make your games load slower.

No, smaller partitions will DECREASE access times. The read/write head has less area to search.

The whole idea is to put what you want fast access for on the outer most part of the HDD platter. Even though the whole platter spins at the same RPM, the sectors go buy the head at a greater speed near the outer edge.

Defragging may have a greater influence on game load times though, depending on how fragmented your drive(s) is/are.

Yes, you can create a new partition, but putting it at the outer edge would be safer and easier with an OS reinstall.

RAID0 will sped up access times greatly, RAID1 wont.

Have a look at Ultimate Defrag. It lets you put whatever you want wherever you want it.

You've Never Seen Such Power and Flexibility In A Defragger! File Placement Options For Hard Drive Performance Optimization To FulFill Your Wildest Dreams..... And To Squeeze Every Millisecond of Performance From Your Hard Drive.

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Raid won't change access times whatsoever.

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This.

Although the read and write speeds up in RAID, the harddrives still take the same amount of time to access the information on the drives, due to the head that reads the disk on the drive not having any speed boosts due to RAID (just not physically possible).

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We knew that.

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RAID actually can increases access times due to additional latency.

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We know that. But the OP said he was a nOOb, so I didn't want to go into details. Ultimate Defrag will confuse him enough.

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To be fair, he did not say anything wrong here at all.

Increasing access speed (although not particularly technical), is not wrong, and is exactly what you want to do with your storage.

Speeding up access time, again although a little clunky, is not really incorrect either.

I am sure there are occasions when some of those pointing and laughing have not got their terminology spot on. Maybe a little more leeway in future? The guy got his point across perfectly...

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Mine's never spot on but I was laughing at the Ultimate Defrag comment.

The options on that program are enough to keep an experienced user occupied for days....Ask me how I know!

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My comment wasn't aimed at you - more at those a little earlier in the thread.

But I am not trying to single people out - just promote a little more friendliness. After all, we are all here because we spend too much time/money on our pcs anyway - we might as well all get along...

Bradley,

SSDs will help in that respect. Make a RAID0 with 2 SSDs and you'll see what your system can do. Classical HDD's only slow down most of our computers. Spin, move needles, etc.

When prices go down, jump on a few INTELS . That is what I will do . 420 euros is a bit much for an INTEL drive .

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And i won't lose data or confuse any file path/locations will i?

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