HDD Laptop Treatment

By Andreas Lee

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Your activity to use laptop every day for work purpose might makes you forget that your laptop also need special attention from you. This is very important. Why? Because if there is a problem occurs with your laptop, for example HDD laptop (also known as laptop hard drive), your data or your valuable asset is threatened gone. So now you better start to take care of your laptop especially its hard drive.

You certainly often delete data without realizing that the deleted data or uninstalled program leaves empty gap. The gap size depends on the deleted data size. If a large data deleted, then it will leave a big gap. It is a must to know that more gaps in HDD laptop will result in decreased performance.

Therefore you need to defrag your HDD laptop, below is the step by step:

• Enter ‘My Computer’
• Right click on hard drive which you want to defrag
• Select ‘properties’
• Select ‘Tools’ tab
• Press ‘Defragment Now’ button
• On Disk Defragmenter window, press ‘defragment’ button

Defragmentation requires 15% free disk space for optimal result. If you never defrag your HDD laptop for a long time, the process could take a whole day. But if you do this once a month routinely, the process just takes around 15-30 minutes. It is better to make it done during your spare time.

Make sure when the defragmentation process takes place, do not use any software, downloading, storing, or deleting data.

Avoid storing data in hard drive excessively, meaning is do not store data until your hard drive capacity is completely full. Believe me, I have experience, all of my data is gone and hard drive performance is good-for-naught anymore.

HDD Laptop Buying Tips

Give your attention to laptop hard drive performance before spending your money. I recommend to purchase a Serial ATA (SATA) drives because its performance is needed by most laptop users in this world today. Choose HDD laptop which has 7200 rpm spindle speed because it saves more laptop battery than 5400 rpm and 4500 rpm, reduces your waiting time, and allows fast data access.

Other Specification which is also important to deal is the ‘capacity’. Buying a large capacity HDD laptop is a good choice to prevent your headache due to capacity problem in the future.

Please check out my other guides on: hard disk external and LaCie flash drive