Hard Drive Speeds
Thu Aug 07 2014
Many people don’t realize that the slowest part of their computer is the hard drive. The read and write speeds of a hard drive affects the computer’s performance. The most affected processes are the boot time and time it takes to open an application.
0.1 Experiment
I decided to explore the speed differences between several types of hard drives. In all the trials I used a program called Parkdale for speed measurements. *Please note that these are just the hard drives I had lying around, there can be great variation of performances between different manufacturers.
0.2 5400 RPM Toshiba Laptop HHD
0.3 7200 RPM HHD
0.4 Samsung 840 EVO SSD
0.5 Kingston SSD
