When you are doing multimedia
editing, you will start to feel the stress from your hard
disk. In this article I will show you 3 advance strategies
to accelerate your hard disk up to 2 times faster or even
more...
Strategy #1 - Defrag
The easiest way to speed up application launch time is by
defrag to rearrange your application software on hard disk,
how about the boot up time? Do you know that you need to
manually defrag the boot up files with special utility to
minimize the boot up time?
2 of the best defragmenter out there are:
a) PerfectDisk
b)
Diskeeper
Both will defrag your boot up files and allow you to perform
some kind of background stealth defragmentation when you are
not using your hard disk.
You can download any free disk defragmenter, but none of
them will defrag boot up files. The only utility I know
still works with Vista boot up files is TUNEXP. You can find
it at
Google
search. Use the "Ultra fast booting" menu
to defrag the system files for boot up.
Strategy #2 - Reallocate page file
If you have 2 or more hard disk, you should move your page
file from Windows drive to another drive, set the page file
size fixed to 1.5 times of your memory. Variable file size
just delay a bit, so fix the size.
strategy#3 - Use RAID (Stripped Volume)
Stripped Volume only supported by Business and Ultimate
edition. However you can always use your motherboard build
in RAID or buy a cheap RAID card. Using RAID 0 or stripped
drive, you can double your disk access speed in "theory".
The theory is you can read and write using 2 or more drives
simultaneously. For example, I can save a 10 MB file into 2
hard disk at the same time, 5 MB each and will result in
faster disk access. But the matter of fact is too much
overhead and the actual result is just 30%~50% faster than 1
drive. You can use more hard disk to gain faster access
speed. I must warn you to backup your critical data
frequently, any 1 of the drive dies using stripped volume
will result in total lost of data!
As a conclusion, there are no cheap way to speed up disk
access, only expensive and
advanced
technology to trade for faster disk
access, use it smartly.
(C) Copyright 2008 Kok Choon
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