Improve Hard Disk Speed

If hard disk of your computer or server is taking too much time to get the result, then to improve your hard disk speed you will need to configure a special buffer in the computers memory in order to enable it to better deal with interrupts made from the disk. This tip is only recommended if your computer or server has 256MB RAM or higher.

Step 1:

Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the Run command.

Step 2:

Expand the system.ini file window.

Step 3:

Scroll down almost to the end of the file till you find a line called [386enh].

Step 4:

Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type

Irq14=4096

Note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE!!!

Step 5:

Click on the File menu, then choose Save.

Step 6:

Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer or server.

Done.

Speed improvement will be noticed after the computer reboots.

Update: The most speed improvement is visible with IDE drives, however there are reports that this tweak also does good for SCSI disks. In any case, it won't harm your computer or Dedicated Server, so try it out.

Suggest:
Hard disk speed also improve using hard disk cache settings.
Hard disk cache settings also depend on available RAM.
Done following settings in system.ini

MinFileCache=4096
MaxFileCache=8192

If you have lower RAM then above settings are very use full.