{"id":352,"date":"2005-10-09T00:05:50","date_gmt":"2005-10-09T07:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/07\/dramatic-hard-drive-performance-boost\/"},"modified":"2006-01-09T20:28:57","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T04:28:57","slug":"dramatic-hard-drive-performance-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/09\/dramatic-hard-drive-performance-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic hard drive performance boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was fiddling with my BIOS settings trying to get my Cybex Autoview Commander 4 port KVM to stop messing up my keyboard input. Avocent (who bought Cybex) said that I might want to change the BIOS keyboard input setting from &#8220;fast&#8221; to &#8220;normal&#8221;. Well, I couldn&#8217;t find that option in my BIOS but&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>There is an option for hard drive performance. You can choose: bypass, quiet hard drive, or performance hard drive. It had been set to &#8220;bypass&#8221;. I switched it to &#8220;performance&#8221; and Yeeeh <em>Haawww<\/em>! The drive is now a bit louder, making those traditional hard drive clackity sounds, but some disk operations are now <strong>much<\/strong> more responsive. Several tasks have gone from &#8220;click, wait-a-sec&#8230; wait-a-sec&#8230; wait-a-sec&#8230; done&#8221; to &#8220;click-done&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Cool beans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was fiddling with my BIOS settings trying to get my Cybex Autoview Commander 4 port KVM to stop messing up my keyboard input. Avocent (who bought Cybex) said that I might want to change the BIOS keyboard input setting from &#8220;fast&#8221; to &#8220;normal&#8221;. Well, I couldn&#8217;t find that option in my BIOS but&#8230;. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}