Notebook HDD is slooooooow...

GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
edited December 2004 in Hardware
I've got an eMachines M6811 notebook that I bring to LAN parties. Overall, I'm pretty pleased with the performance (A64 3400+ 2.2GHz 1MB L2, Radeon 9600 64MB, 512MB RAM) except for in a few conditions. Because the HDD is only 4200 RPM, it takes forever to load some games. Specifically, level loading in UT2K4 takes about 4x as long as a desktop machine. Does anyone have any ideas for how to remedy this situation, both in general in all load times and specifically in UT2K4? I'm not going to be replacing the HDD, so that solution is out.

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  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited December 2004
    Your best bet is to replace that POS hard drive, unfortunately. You might want to order an external hard drive that has a usb 2.0 or firewire interface that has a faster drive in it, but that's liable to be more expensive than just replacing that POS 4200 rpm drive with a 5400 or 7200 rpm notebook drive.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited December 2004
    There is nothing you can do besides keep it defragged or replace it. The seek time is limited by the rotational speed. Its almost twice as slow as your desktop....so its gonna have almost twice the seek times.
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited December 2004
    http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-146-020&depa=0

    this is consereded the fastest 2.5 hard drive

    I have one and it is almost as fast as a desktop HD

    just make sure that it is the not the E7K60 version, it is made for server duty

    it has no power saving modes
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