Can external hard drives increase prossesing speed?

Answer 1

Answer External Hard Drives are usually used to back up files in case of a crash you have all of your files on an external Hard Drive. As far as making your computer work better, sorry, it doesn't work that way. If you want to improve the performance of your computer try changing the CPU chip or adding more Ram. If you don't know how to do these things, perhaps a visit to a computer store would be your best bet.

Answer 2

Yes it can.

Newer hard drives often have higher areal density, which means they read data from the platters faster. Desktop hard drives have been standardized on 7200 RPM for years, but it you have a laptop, you may have a chance to upgrade from a 5400 RPM drive to a 7200 RPM drive, which will speed up performance.

The machine uses the hard drive as Virtual Memory swap space, so it is continually writing and reading temporary files to the hard drive. If you don't have enough drive space, it has to write smaller files, more often, which slows the machine down. Same thing with many programs, they have to write temp files and changes to data files to the drive as you are working.

Also as your hard drive fills up, it slows down. The inner tracks of the drive are as much as 50% slower than the outermost tracks (it's geometry, the amount of data that passes beneath the heads in one revolution is directly related to the track length, or the perimeter, of the track). So a full hard drive (where you are doing most of

your new work on inner tracks) is slower than a mostly empty hard drive. For the same reason (more data under the heads per revolution) newer drives with a higher data density (areal density) will read faster.

Finally, a full hard drive is more likely to be badly fragmented - where the OS is forced to store the segments of an individual file in many different sectors scattered all over the drive platters. This slows down reading and writing. A drive that is very full (less then 10% free space) can defeat defragmenting operations (some OS's defragment in the background)

Answer 3

Not directly. The organization of the new hard drive may increase the speed of responses however this hardware alone will not resolve the issue. Extraneous to this question is the current condition of the hard drive being replaced. Should the old hardware be presently on a slow downward spiral then a new hard drive may indeed resolve this issue.

Answer 4

No it increases the amount of space you have to save things.

The best way to improve computer performance getting value for money is to upgrade the RAM.

Answer 5

No it will not it will only make your PC faster not the game but if you want to improve gaming on your PC check YouTube or download game booster.

Answer 6

No.