Is it better to stream or download your song, movies and video files?

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I prefer downloading my media files since they will always be on my computer, and I can watch or listen to them whenever I want even if there is an internet outage.

Plus, I have 100GBs of free space, so I might as well use some of it to store media files which I plan to watch on a later date or on a daily or monthly basis.
 
I rather stream my stuff, keep my PC as light as possible.
 
I think computers are mainly slow because of slow antivirus like AVG 2011, and bloated programs like Internet Explorer 8, toolbars, poorly made browser plug-ins, etc being opened and running in the background of your PC which makes your PC feel heavy or slow because of them running in your RAM/memory which makes Windows slow, and not files which are just being stored on your PC hard drive not being opened.

As long as you defrag your hard drive once a month or when ever it is 20% fragmented according to your disk defrag analyze report, and you have 20% or more of free space for disk defrag to run properly. There would not be a performance increase or decrease by having Terabytes, or 100s of Gigabytes of free space since it is the computers' Operating system, software being run, Processor, RAM, and video card which usually make your computer faster or slower.

But, if you have less then 20% of free space you may notice a performance decrease because your hard drive can not properly defrag the disk since it can't move your most used files to the fastest part of your hard drive, and the least used files to the slowest section of your hard drive.

I run Windows and Linux on a drive which has 20% free space, and on drives with over 70% free space, and did not notice any performance increase or decrease.
 
froggyboy604 said:
I think computers are mainly slow because of slow antivirus like AVG 2011, and bloated programs like Internet Explorer 8, toolbars, poorly made browser plug-ins, etc being opened and running in the background of your PC which makes your PC feel heavy or slow because of them running in your RAM/memory which makes Windows slow, and not files which are just being stored on your PC hard drive not being opened.

As long as you defrag your hard drive once a month or when ever it is 20% fragmented according to your disk defrag analyze report, and you have 20% or more of free space for disk defrag to run properly. There would not be a performance increase or decrease by having Terabytes, or 100s of Gigabytes of free space since it is the computers' Operating system, software being run, Processor, RAM, and video card which usually make your computer faster or slower.

But, if you have less then 20% of free space you may notice a performance decrease because your hard drive can not properly defrag the disk since it can't move your most used files to the fastest part of your hard drive, and the least used files to the slowest section of your hard drive.

I run Windows and Linux on a drive which has 20% free space, and on drives with over 70% free space, and did not notice any performance increase or decrease.
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more stuff you got on though makes running malware and antivirus stuff take longer.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
more stuff you got on though makes running malware and antivirus stuff take longer.
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True, but you can always do a quick or smart scan which just scans the places where you are most likely to get infected like C:\Windows, C:\program files, etc, or you can do a custom scan which scan, and tell your antivirus to skip your video, and audio file folder, and just scan your C:\Windows and C:\Program files and other folders except for your video and MP3 files.

I mainly use Ubuntu Linux, so I don't really need to do virus scans because Ubuntu Linux is smart enough to not let any program install without your permissions by you typing in your root password, and there are "very few" or almost no viruses for Linux as long as you use the built-in Software Center to install programs.
 
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