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Save Your PC From Choking

by Jon Chase on October 9, 2009 at 04:14 PM

If you use huge media files for audio, video, and photo-editing apps, then you've experienced the annoyance of having your PC slow to a crawl whenever you're performing processor-intensive tasks. The best workaround is to store those huge files on a speedy, secondary hard drive, whether internal or external. Doing so preemptively clears up the bottleneck that occurs when your main hard drive has to search through data like a maniac while also handling all the processing, and should result in vastly improved speeds.

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