How to make my HDD faster?

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Hi all,
I would like to know if there is a safe way to speed up my 5400rpm HDD ?
I have a laptop with an SSD,and an HDD.
The WIN 10 64 bit OS is installed on the SSD,and the games are installed on the HDD.
Some games for an example GTA V has micro-stuttering,while playing ,that is a problem that I have never had on my previous laptop where the game was installed on an SSD!

So please tell me if there is some registry or other really working tweak to make my HDD faster!

Thanks to all in advance!
Best regards!
 
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As I said, it isn't magical fix to it, it might or might not work and as such I do not recommend it for just testing purposes.
I use Diskeeper professional 16 (it's not cheap) that does defragmenting and said RAM caching in one. (intellimemory)
Pretty much eliminating 70% of all read operations and 35% of all write operations (from last 4 months) since they were not needed.
The downside is that it works best on normal common stuff like programs/browsing/such stuff and far less on random "I want to load this 60GB of game" although from what I've tried, it handles that decently (my own opinion) too.

They do have short term trial version available though if you want to test it.
http://www.condusiv.com/business/diskeeper/professional/
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You can not make your 5400 rpm HDD faster. You can only maintain it's optimal speed by doing some regular maintance e.g. defragmentation.
If you wanna get faster HDD, you can only replace it with an SSD or 7200rpm HDD.

Other things you can check:
- Scan for viruses, malwares, etc.
- Deactivate unnecessary background running programs

Microstutters are usually not caused by HDD.
Post your laptop complete specification first.
 
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I will take a look at your youtube link at home tonight.
If the HDD is really really slow, it could cause stutters on open-world games due to slow data streaming.
However, microstutters usually do not come due to HDD.
One of the known stutter fixes for GTA V is to play GTA V on Steam offline mode.
 
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No that video is completley bogus.
The pure and simple fact that he modified the registry and DID NOT restart the computer means it is bogus.
Registry key changes do not take effect until the computer is restarted, period.
Thus the fact that they showed instant improvement in video without restarting is unarguable proof of it being b.s. right off the bat.
 
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+1 lol
 
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While researching this magic trick, I have to agree with Boosted1g

I am no professional on the matter but from that youtube video (and googling parts of it) it seems that the person has been making a few changes besides the supposed SATA speed "upgrade" (If we assume he had added said things and rebooted and all that)
Only link to said changes was to czech tech forum, with no replies, which implies a lot. based on that and the video:
1. Changed windows to think that the processor is different than it really is. (model/family/stepping)
2. Possibly increased priority of SATA operations, in theory giving faster disk access by a bit, at cost of everything else. (no mention what the magic registry keys "supposedly" do.)
3. There is no magic "This doubles/triples the speed" fix. Even if there was, it would require more than opening few apps to see actual disk read/write speeds as somekind of difference meter.
Requiring test before changes, tests after changes and clear difference on results.

Your best bet on faster load times would be:
Change HDD to big SSD (yes, they cost a ton)
buy active inbackground ram caching app, allowing you to have quite fast read/write speeds on sequential data (big files) while random reads are no faster than normal.
 
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As I said, it isn't magical fix to it, it might or might not work and as such I do not recommend it for just testing purposes.
I use Diskeeper professional 16 (it's not cheap) that does defragmenting and said RAM caching in one. (intellimemory)
Pretty much eliminating 70% of all read operations and 35% of all write operations (from last 4 months) since they were not needed.
The downside is that it works best on normal common stuff like programs/browsing/such stuff and far less on random "I want to load this 60GB of game" although from what I've tried, it handles that decently (my own opinion) too.

They do have short term trial version available though if you want to test it.
http://www.condusiv.com/business/diskeeper/professional/
 
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