Hard Drive Capacity Related Performance

[KettyKrueger]

Hi All,

I was just wanting to know, will my computer's performance be affected how full my hard drive is?

At the moment my hard drive is 71% full (I have iStat), ideally, what should this figure be? I'm just wondering if it might be a good idea to replace the hard drive for a 500GB? Although I don't really need 500GB (yet!), would the performance increase by any significant amount?

Cheers,
KK

 

[MacDawg]

Yes, as your hard drive gets "full" it will affect performance

HDDs are fairly inexpensive right now and the 500 GB is a good value

I recommend the Scorpio Blue (check Amazon)

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[KettyKrueger]

Yes, as your hard drive gets "full" it will affect performance

HDDs are fairly inexpensive right now and the 500 GB is a good value

I recommend the Scorpio Blue (check Amazon)

Woof, Woof - Dawg

Cheers for that. So how full are we talking here?

 

[BobZune]

If you are using the 320 GB as a single partition, I'd say not to worry about space until it gets down to about 15% free. In the meantime, you can clean up caches etc. with Onyx or something similar.