Qosmio X505-Q870 with "slow" disk access

i"ve got a several month old X505 870 with 4GB of memory and TWO Hitachi 7200 rpm 500GB SATA II hard drives. The system is used primarily for initial examination of digital images, with each image being around 20MB. Accessing images to display previews is perceptibly slow. YES, the system is tuned to the best of my ability. YES, both disks have been, and are REGULARLY defragmented - both show 0% fragmentation. YES, I've thrown away the original O/S with all the trialware, stupidity, and goop, and installed W7, 64-bit. YES, all the drivers I'm aware of are current, including the Intel storage drivers. NO, other than the periodic Side-By-Side errors that show up every couple days, I'm NOT getting application or system errors.
In Bridge or Lightroom I"m not getting CPU bound, but this thing beats on the disk(s) quite a bit, and takes MUCH longer than the desktop system to display images. YES, the desktop is a slightly faster CPU, but it
also has standard 7200 rpm drives for images, and it's SIGNIFICANTLY faster at retrieving and displaying images in Bridge or Lightroom...
Is there any PRACTICAL (no, putting in 2, 500GB SSD drives is NOT practical) thing that can be done to improve disk performance on this box, 'cause right now it certainly isn't any speedster?

I don't have any empirical evidence about whether the original installation was this slow, but my recollection is the reason I dumped an re-installed a clean W7 was because the original was REALLY a dog. I also wanted to put partitions on the drives and the original installation caused problems with the partitioning... But, I'm confident that the original was definitely not faster...
As far as drivers, I believe I have everything current.
My antivirus is Microsoft Security Essentials, but I currently have it turned off. So that's probably not the issue.....
As far as "is it really slow", I can't say. It's SLOWER, but I suppose if you're not doing anything very demanding it'd probably be all right. It's just significantly slower doing what I do, than my desktop. I don't have anything else to compare it to, but it SEEMS (the ever popular "seems") to me that a quad-core with 4GB of memory and 7200 rpm drives should be extremely quick to pull up images and render previews. But, I'll admit my expectations may be too high.
Which is why I'm hoping there's something I've neglected that'll make things perform better. I even dumbed down the interface with the "best performance versus best appearance" thing to see if that'd help. Didn't.

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