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Originally Posted by Sly
My PCs are getting pretty sluggish. Probably been 3 years since my last reformat.
What's the norm? Not for average people, but for people that work with a variety of applications every day.
Not looking forward to this!
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Originally Posted by AdultKing
This doesn't make sense.
Formatting a hard drive does not make a computer quicker.
Perhaps your computer is slow because you use an OS which leaves junk everywhere, that's different and if it's Windows you can clean away that junk and speed up the machine without the very drastic step of reformatting.
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Just use SSD drives. In all of my computers now.
I installed a 1 TB SSD in my iMac, installation was a little more involved, I shorted the cooling fan sensor for the hdd otherwise it'll run full speed all the time. Runs everything with loading being 1/2 to 1/8 the time the HDD took.
Still cost me over $300 but worth it.
SSD are cheap enough that a 256GB Samsung really shouldn't make you break a sweat.
I'm running a 2010 iMac 27"