HDD Make my PC run faster?

This axe is over 70 years old, and still cuts like new. Mind you in that time it's had four new handles and three new heads...

Uh ....... So is that a sitting on the fence answer?

No, it's a 'by now you've changed so many elements of your computer I no longer have any idea what's affecting performance, and I suspect neither do you' answer.

I have only bought a streamer and a graphics card and barebones quadcore.

I just thought that people are raving about this F3 1TB Spinpoint for 37.00 it might be worth while.

I ask questions about gigabit media streamers... Get it right andrew... LOL

Andrew Everard:

This axe is over 70 years old, and still cuts like new. Mind you in that time it's had four new handles and three new heads...

Or 'Look after your broom'.

Anyone just give me a yes or no answer?

Thanks

Yes. Or no. The physical speed of the drive will have little effect on the boot-up speed of a computer, and I am afraid I don't understand your second question - ie the distinction between a hard disc attached to your computer and an HDD attached to your computer - but I suspect the network may have more effect on the stuttering than how the drive is connected to the computer.

Or get a Mac and take boot up largely out of the equation or wait for this...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069 

OK thanks andrew, and that was a good read Lee.

What I meant is, if all my media was on a new fast HDD, would my AC Ryan be able to read it faster and there for get the data from my pc faster so less chance of stutter. you dont have to answer that if its a stupid question.

canada16:

What I meant is, if all my media was on a new fast HDD, would my AC Ryan be able to read it faster and there for get the data from my pc faster so less chance of stutter. you dont have to answer that if its a stupid question.

Again I think the problem is more network related than to do with the choice of HDD. You might do better with a NAS device hooked up to the network router, rather than relying on one connected to your PC.

I have a buffalo linkstation

I asked someone to look at it, as the torrent thing on it was not working right, and whilst at his house he kicked it off his desk.

So he gave me some money for a new HDD as it broke, but he still has not given it back to me yet. that has a gigabit lan, also I just got a 8 port gigabit port, and just bought a gigabit lan pci card for my pc, as the motherboard is only 10/100.

But the AC RYAN is only able to do 10/100 anyway, just upgraded everything for when I get a better streamer.

If you have XP, disable pre-fetch and disable any services/apps running that don't need to be. Keeping PC's 'clean' can make a huge dufference to boot and running performance. I talk as a 7+ year former desktop support veteran.

Your hard drive won't be the slowest bit of audio streaming, it will most likely be the wifi, possibly low on RAM, possibly worth changing your music app, or possibly to do with other processes going on that distract your computer from streaming files. F3 is a great HDD tho, and will generally speed up your computer, but I doubt it will speed up streaming as the audio data will probably stay in RAM.

Agreed: with all computers, keeping start-up as clean as possible is the best way of speeding things up.

Oh also, a new HDD won't make your PC or apps start up much quicker unless the operating system & apps are installed on the new HDD i.e. you would have to reinstall windows