Drive Performance

By Joshua Erdman
Digital Foundation, inc.

Defragmentation

As files get created and deleted from your hard drive they get fragmented. That means that a file that your computer is loading could be scattered in pieces in different areas about the drive resulting in very poor reading performance. Read about it in our article on Defragmentation.

Hardware Configurations

Getting the most from IDE/ATA

Most motherboards come with two IDE controllers (A primary and a secondary) some motherboards have an IDE RAID controller built on. The links below give you all the information you need to get the most out of the drive components you already have and what peripherals you can buy to really speed things up!

Configure your computer with the basic IDE setup.

RAID

Other enhancements can be used for much faster load and boot times but they will require you to spend some extra cash. This uses a drive Technology know as RAID.

Configuring and building a RAID Array.

Correct Drive Partitioning

Creating good hard drive partitions is a great way to achieve performance.

Article last reviewed: 02/16/2006

Created by: Digital Foundation, inc.

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