Hi everyone,
I have a fairly antiquated Q6600 based system with 4 GB RAM, SSD for C: drive and a couple of ATA (I think they are IDE) drives for D and E. E was just my Windows XP drive and I could actually remove that completely after getting some photos off it.
What I've noticed recently is that the computer is really slow when it comes time to flip between apps or change tabs in Chrome. Like ten seconds to display a new tab if it hasn't been recently accessed. I had the brilliant idea to check the performance tab of Task Manager and this delay always coincides with D: "disk access" going to 100%. On the bottom part it shows the throughput as being around 7 to 10 MB/sec disk transfer rate (although it may be going over that but the range doesn't change).
Then I ran the user benchmark tool and those tests show the D: drive at 8th percentile. The peak transfer rate I saw during this test was about 22 MB/sec.
RAM usage on the little graph on the left side of Task Manager is 75 to 85% typically and doesn't fluctuate much.
I've forgotten how everything is set up but it's possible I have paging or internet temp files set to the D: drive to minimize wear on the SSD. I've been thinking of getting an upgraded CPU and Mobo but if I have this sort of fundamental issue it's not going to help because my CPU is not the limiting factor in these cases.
So for sure I should probably get a SATA drive for the D:
What else should I be looking at? Be nice if I could fine tune this setup to see if I can use it longer, or even just to prepare for a CPU/mobo upgrade.
TIA!
DL
I have a fairly antiquated Q6600 based system with 4 GB RAM, SSD for C: drive and a couple of ATA (I think they are IDE) drives for D and E. E was just my Windows XP drive and I could actually remove that completely after getting some photos off it.
What I've noticed recently is that the computer is really slow when it comes time to flip between apps or change tabs in Chrome. Like ten seconds to display a new tab if it hasn't been recently accessed. I had the brilliant idea to check the performance tab of Task Manager and this delay always coincides with D: "disk access" going to 100%. On the bottom part it shows the throughput as being around 7 to 10 MB/sec disk transfer rate (although it may be going over that but the range doesn't change).
Then I ran the user benchmark tool and those tests show the D: drive at 8th percentile. The peak transfer rate I saw during this test was about 22 MB/sec.
RAM usage on the little graph on the left side of Task Manager is 75 to 85% typically and doesn't fluctuate much.
I've forgotten how everything is set up but it's possible I have paging or internet temp files set to the D: drive to minimize wear on the SSD. I've been thinking of getting an upgraded CPU and Mobo but if I have this sort of fundamental issue it's not going to help because my CPU is not the limiting factor in these cases.
So for sure I should probably get a SATA drive for the D:
What else should I be looking at? Be nice if I could fine tune this setup to see if I can use it longer, or even just to prepare for a CPU/mobo upgrade.
TIA!
DL