Assuming no fragmentation, a hard drive reads data faster sequentially.
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Immediately replace it with a hard drive that does not randomly lock up.
From what I know, hard drives are faster.
An internal hard drive will generally be faster than an external one.
You can access data faster.
a solid state drive is faster than an sata drive...
The RPM of your hard drive. A 7000RPM drive is faster than a 5000RPM drive, and an SSD is faster than all Platter hard drives.
no a hard drive has a much faster access time...
It is known as overwriting, in which a program is used to write zeroes and ones on the hard-drive. Several passes may be made to ensure the original data has been completely overwritten. Simply formatting a hard-drive is no good, as the data is still on the hard-drive, only the links to the data is removed, and the data can be recovered.
External serial ATA (eSATA) hard drives is up to six times faster than USB or FireWire.
The hard drive cache is used when accessing files on your hard drive and a larger cache does improve file operation speeds.