Make old hdd faster?

[Dimitris_1]

so i have an old pc that has a very old 120 gb hdd. is there a way to make it faster? unfortunately i dont have money to buy ssd.

 

[superninja12]

de-frag it, google

 

[captaincharisma]

defrag or format it and reinstall your OS

 

[nukemaster]

Older drives are just slower(for the most part). As advances like PMR have made newer drives faster.

Remember that faster may be sequential or may be random. Random reads/writes are helped with a drive that is minimal fragments. So as the user above says, give that thing a defrag.

If the system is new enough to take a newer drive even a small one(120 gigs is already very small by modern drive standards) may be better(you can also keep all date near the start for better performance by trapping it in a small partition.).

It used to take 2 fairly good old 250 gigabytes in raid 0 to even remotely match some of today's slower drives in sequential read/writes.

 

[Dimitris_1]

wel like i said its very old hdd. dont even know how much rpm its running.

 

[nukemaster]

Best to see how fragmented it is.

You can get specs by searching online for its model number. You can get this from device manager(run devmgmt.msc). It will be listed under disk drives.