Does Hard Drive Speed effect computer speed ? | Parkdale Speed Test

Hey Guyz , today's my post is about Testing read and write speed of hard disk using Parkdale software.
Initially i used to think ,that the speed of our computer totally depends upon our processor because wherever we go like to computer shops , they mostly discuss about processor,RAM ...but the hard disk topic always go into darkness.

But the Hard disk play a major role in the computer speed. So Higher the speed of the hard disk , faster it will boot, faster it will do its tasks. I am mainly discussing this topic because in enterprise world or in home also ,people think ,by fully changing the system they can make the system faster ,but it rather than changing whole system , we can make a single change to make system faster i.e by changing to a faster hard drive .

For this testing only , we got a software is parkdale speed test .The best thing about this software is it is portable,its just a exe file.So by just comparing the results of your present hard drive speed and new hard drive speed ,you can take your decision.

Lets check how to do speed test in parkdale:

1. First download the parkdale software from here : Click here
2 . Install your old hard disk and new hard disk and open parkdale EXE file .
3. Now click on quick access tab and select your new hard disk of higher speed .see the screenshot below :

Here you have to set some options :

File size : File size is the size which hard disk take for its testing.here higher the value ,testing will be more accurate, i have taken 10MB , but recommended to take 1GB(which will take 5 min).

Block Size : 64 kB default for windows

4.Click Start.

So whenever you think about hard disk keep in mind two things

a. How fast the files can push or pull data.

b. How fast is the individual transactions is taking place (for database)

Here you have to see , IOPS-individual operations per second is about 11717 for writing and 6544 for reading, higher the IOPS higher the speed.

now lets test for old hard disk of higher capacity and less speed.

Now you can see the difference for sure ....it is almost five times faster .

So I think rather than concentrating more on processors like i 7 etc . You can also change the hard disk in order to increase your computer speed .

Last words :

Hard disk speed has a greater contribution in the speed of computer.So rather than changing the processors which are quite costly ,you can change the hard disk of faster speed .You can see the greater difference by spending less amount.

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