Bigger hard drives?

[Michael1337]

I feel like my installations take way longer than they should, both when installing from and DVD and straight from the internet (steam, origin etc), even though I got a pretty good internet Connection. Could the problem be my hard drives? They're 4 years old, I've got one 465GB and one 931GB hard drive.
Should I get bigger ones? Like 2TB or 3TB?

Setup:
Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz
Nvidia GeForce GTX 760
650W Power Supply
2x 4GB and 1x 8GB RAM

 

[newtekie1]

I don't think it will make much of a difference. Installs will depend on the slowest factor, in this case reading from a DVD is a lot slower than writing to the hard drive, and downloading from the internet is way slower than writing to the hard drive as well. Getting a faster hard drive isn't going to make installing games from DVD/Interent any faster, you'll still be waiting on the DVD/Internet.

 

[Solaris17]

I don't think it will make much of a difference. Installs will depend on the slowest factor, in this case reading from a DVD is a lot slower than writing to the hard drive, and downloading from the internet is way slower than writing to the hard drive as well. Getting a faster hard drive isn't going to make installing games from DVD/Interent any faster, you'll still be waiting on the DVD/Internet.

This alot of people make the mistake of thinking their internet speed is in megaBYTES (MB) it is actually megaBITS(Mb)

So lets take my net speed for example 50Mb down thats a whopping 6.25MB a second WAY under a standard HDDs write speed.

EDIT:: If you really think your speeds are bad or installs make sure your AV software is any isnt doing deeps scans of incoming files and taking up time. Also torrenting can slow you down too, even if you are not downloading at full speed your HDD is constantly doing I/O for small files and taking up your HDD que time.

 

[micropage7]

first of course check your hdd, is there any unusual things? like clicking, spinning too much, too hot, badsector or like that
installing time related to optical disc read, how big data that installed, the disk itself and your pc condition
so time is pretty relative

 

[EpicShweetness]

Downloading is just that your sending a request to a server and in turn that server is send down a stream of information. Check your internet speed, speedtest.net always helps. If it's not your internet then just blame it on their server, and/or the load being demanded on it. Either way your HDD is capable of 100MB/s(+) and internet and DVD is way WAY slower then that.

 

[Bugler]

Downloading from the internet depends on the speed the server is set to. Some server are fast some are slow. Hard drives are pretty much the same speed no matter what size. Some are 7200 rpm and some are 5400 rpm. Also there's 10,000 rpm models and there's SATA 1.2, SATA 2.0 and SATA 3.0 interfaces with SATA 3.0 being the fastest.

The CPU and the drive usually have to wait for the data to come in. They're not the bottlenecks.

 

[Jetster]

Quit watching it download