What is more important when extracting rars cpu or hdd?

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Published on 2010-04-28T15:05:57Z Indexed on 2010/04/28 15:13 UTC
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When i am extracting big rars it takes forever. However when i look in the task man cpu usage is only about 16%.

I am thinking that the hdd is the bottleneck, or maybe not? The hdd is an average 7200 rpm seagate.

Some know more about this?

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