Recently I have noticed that the pc is very slow to get started, taking upwards of 3 minutes to be useable. Obviously I realise that with a mechanical hard drive these kinds of problems always exist, but I think mine is slower thatn it should be. Now I tried upping the speed of the RAM (don't ask me why, thought I might as well...) to 1955mhz @ cas8 but that has, unsuprisingly, made no difference. I'm running 64bit windows 7 Pro, with 4GB RAM, an i5 750 at 3.7GHz and a rather dated sata maxtor 200gb harddrive. I would assume that is holding me back :D I recently defragmented which made almost no difference and within 2 days it's already as badly fragmented as it was before. Is there anything that can be done, or is it just time to get a new HD, in which case should I get a 500GB WD/sammy for about £35 or should I save up for a boot drive and keep this liability of a hard disk for storage. Bearing in mind that I have never managed to use even more than 100GB of filespace, what is the best course of action?