03-25-17 00:37 Dale Shipp wrote to Ed Vance about Re: New HDD for XP pc
Howdy! Dale,

 DS> @MSGID: <58D6323B.15090.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>
 -=> On 03-23-17  23:29,  Ed Vance <=-
 -=> spoke to All about New HDD for XP pc <=-

 EV> My HP a1430n XP SP3 pc has a AMD 3800+ Dual Core CPU and has been
 EV> acting very slow when starting up or when I start a program.

 EV> I've been thinking if I replaced the 250GB HDD with a 2TB HDD it might
 EV> speed up the pc's performance with more Free Space on the HDD.

 DS> More memory might also help speed things up.   If you have access to
 DS> BestBuy web site, do a search on Seagate internal hard drives.  They
 DS> have a 1Tb for $60 and 2Tb for $80.  Both sound good.

The pc had two 500MB sticks of RAM in it when I bought it, so I bought
two 1GB sticks to put in the other two Slots.

I couldn't see trashing the two 500MB DDR 400 sticks and buying four 1GB
sticks to fill all the slots, so I decided 3GB should be enough on a pc
with a CPU that run at 2 Mc/s.

The XP OS is 32-Bit and I was told here that the maximum RAM it could use
was 3.8GB iirc.

Is that still true?

The store I get my Technology products at has Seagate and WD HDDs about at
the same price BestBuy sells them.

My store sells a couple of other HDD Brands too, BestBuy probably also has
those as well.

My store is close to home, BestBuy is in the next town where the Church I
worship is at.
So Distance isn't a problem, I just prefer to buy at the store nearby.
The Staff tolerates Me.

Ages ago I remember reading a rant about Seagate hard drives so I never
considered buying any of them.
I've only used Verbatim, WD and Toshiba drives for backing up the pc.
Has Seagate corrected whatever problem their drives were having in the past?

The 3TB Toshiba USB 3.0 drive failed during Warranty and they replaced it.

I thought to look at the Windows XP Task Manager to see what the
Performance Tab Settings are, and type them in for You (and Others)
to look at.

Totals:
Handles 25089
Threads 1068
Processe 68

Physical Memory (K):
Total 3078636
Available 1357836
System Cache 1257196

Commit Charge (K):
Total 2012100
Limit 12297968
Peak 2740488

Kernal Memory (K):
Total 114320
Paged 107716
Nonpaged 36596

Processes: 68       CPU Usage: 20%      Commit Charge: 1915M/12009M


While I was typing the figures above I noticed that they changed often,
so they may not be "Mathematically Correct", but it's the best I could do.

Task Manager shows 9 Applications being used by 1 User.

... Windows 3.1: the best $99 solitare game I've ever seen!
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