can i speed up my tower?

[macisgr8]

Buy two 7200 rpm 500 GB hd's (or bigger and the same model) and RAID them as a stripe using Apple's Disk Utility. Then either reinstall a fresh OS or restore a Time Machine back to the RAID.
The speed increase is very significant.
I can send you the xbench results of before and after I did mine.

[bazookaman]

SSDs are a bit out of my price range.

[mattkime]

if your machine is getting "slower and slower" then it is software

if you're getting more impatient, then buy hardware.

[motopsyco]

I have a 1,1 '06 MacPro. When was the last time you did a clean install? I say back-up then nuke and pave. I do this every couple of years or so.



Cheers!

[decay]

so, your boot drive: speed & cache?

this WD has 64 MB of cache, 7200 RPM

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=792

Key Features

High Performance Electronics Architecture
# Dual processor - Twice the processing power to maximize performance.
# Colossal cache - Bigger, faster cache of up to 64 MB means faster performance.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6822136544&Tpk=WD6402AAEX

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6822136533&cm_re=WD1002FAEX-_-22-136-533-_-Product

[Paul F.]

mattkime wrote:
if your machine is getting "slower and slower" then it is software

if you're getting more impatient, then buy hardware.

There's a certain clean, simple, elegance in this suggestion...

[anonymouse1]

Sounds like a software problem--how does it run on a new, clean user account?

[bazookaman]

will try a new user account tonight.

[kj4btkljv]

bazookaman wrote:
I've got about 250 to 275gb free at any given time. I ran diskwarrior a week or 2 back. I try to keep my user account nice and tidy. Would a faster hard drive make a difference? Something smaller with just system and apps? Like a velociraptor?

I have set up my Mac Pro 1,1 2x3GHz Dual Core machine this way - 150GB Velociraptor as the boot and app drive, and an internal 7200RPM Seagate 1TB as my documents drive. Even moved my home folder over to the Seagate. Of course, both drives are backed up religiously.

http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the...x-and-why/

Jeff