How large disk space can speed up computer?

Question

How large disk space can speed up computer? I always heard of it and always clean the disk space ...but my curiosity make me wonder about the question..can someone explain it with simple English yet deeply? It will be better if you have analogy for it..thx~

Answer 1

Large disk space does not speed up your computer. The only thing required is that you should have almost 10-15 GB free space in yout hard drive so that the windows can do paging which increases a little performance. Any more free space does not speed up your computer, it just gives you the ability to store more. If you want performance increase from hard disk you should defragment it regularly or use solid state har disk or the new sata 3 hard disks.

Answer 2

A large disk space gives large amount of data to be stored. A SATA Harddrive with 7200 RPM Speed can access and read data faster. That is how a computer partly get faster.

Answer 3

Wrong.



for best results



you need to keep the free space to just one third larger than the total amount of data required to run the operating system and any installed programs.



the hard drive can then be partitioned

so you then have a safe place to store your personal files and folders away from

the main system.



the reason people clean or overwrite the free space

is to make deleted data irrecoverable.

in other words, to hide whatever they have been doing and have deleted.





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Answer 4

even by defragmentating regularly and clean the disk often, it wont help to speed up your computer that much after the first time. only physical ram can do that

Answer 5

increase the virtual memory size in the computer properties