See, the hard drive I was using was a 7200 SATA II with a speed of 3.0Gbit/sec. However, it's approaching the end of its usable life. So two nights ago I took it out. I replaced it with the hard drive from one of my mom's old laptops. However, it has a rotational speed of 5400RPM and a read/write speed of 1.5Gbit/sec. So while it's going to last a long time (it'll work for months into the future if not longer), it is so ungodly slow that programs will actually skip or freeze momentarily as other programs are loading.
See, the hard drive I was using was a 7200 SATA II with a speed of 3.0Gbit/sec. However, it's approaching the end of its usable life. So two nights ago I took it out. I replaced it with the hard drive from one of my mom's old laptops. However, it has a rotational speed of 5400RPM and a read/write speed of 1.5Gbit/sec. So while it's going to last a long time (it'll work for months into the future if not longer), it is so ungodly slow that programs will actually skip or freeze momentarily as other programs are loading.
I want an SSD, dammit...