Which tweaks could make my HDD faster?

[Maq___]

Hi all,
I have a Lenovo Y-700-15ISK laptop,which has a HDD and a SSD.

The HDD is 1 TB 5400 rpm WD Blue.

Because of the small amount of space of the SSD (only 128 GB),
I install the games to the HDD,but I am facing huge FPS drops while playing the games!

I have installed hdparm,but it doesn't help me!

I would please someone to help me to optimize the drive and play the games more smoothly and without FPS drops!

p.s I don't have enough money to upgrade to a SSD with larger storage!
So please help me to optimize that what I have!

Thanks to all in advance!
Best regards!

 

[ss202sl]

No tweaks will make a HDD faster. It's slow because it's mechanical, and it's just slow. Get a bigger SSD

 

[RolandJS]

Well, one can defrag a HDD twice monthly, that will help a little bit in the seek, read, write time. Defragging is like putting 1000 reference books scattered all over the library back into their one shelf, in alpha order.

 

[Zaxx420]

Windows automatically defrags hdds behind the scenes...man. defrag will do little to nothing. Without getting a bigger ssd, not much can be done except maybe striping off as much data as possible to make room on the ssd for ur game...

 

[RolandJS]

Zaxx240, thanks for the reminders! Windows, once weekly, does indeed defrag. In the long, your idea will work much better in the long run. My idea only is for the short-term until a bigger HDD is purchased and installed.

 

[ss202sl]

Your games won't fit. GTA V alone is 65GB . You need to replace the HDD with a SSD, or get a bigger SSD