What is the best choice for a long lasting and fast harddrive top would be nice I currently have a 1tb 7200 seagate and the problem I'm having is that it takes 5 min to load my free agent hd when I plug it in... so it's my harddrive being slow but in the hd defense I've had it for a long time plus I have filled it 2 or 3 times then d elite programs/files but never re formatted it ...so anyways I'm going to buy a new hard drive but I'm wondering the fastest and most long lasting SSD or HD
new hd or ssd help me
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gregbattis
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Best ssd is a Samsung 850 evo. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147372.
The 850 evo will increase your boot times 10x. It is the best all around boot drive for the price.
If you have extra cash get a 850 pro.
The 850 evo will increase your boot times 10x. It is the best all around boot drive for the price.
If you have extra cash get a 850 pro.
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Yes this will work good for you. You can backup your data on your current 1tb and use dban to format it. I recommend formatting the 1tb with dban before you install the ssd in the computer.
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The ssds speed is 540 mbps read and 520 write.
dban is a disk eraser that cleans all the partitions on a disk including the boot partitions.
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The SSD is ofcourse faster and should be longer lasting(ofcourse we are talking about a good choice of SSD), I'd suggest the samsung 850 evo, but with speed comes a really high price. Usually, people buy 1 HDD and one SSD, the HDD for big files that they don't use much and the SSDs for the OS and important commonly used programs and games.
I suggested you check this http://www.tomshardware.com/t/storage/ and this http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269.html before you think about buying anything. Hope I helped!
I suggested you check this http://www.tomshardware.com/t/storage/ and this http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269.html before you think about buying anything. Hope I helped!
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That dban recommendation as described = lost data, if he has some valuable data already thats kind of silly thing to erase it now...
He might transfer those files on the SSD, format it and transfer it back but for a wise person its no the best option and personally I never did such.
If he has only 1 partition it is indeed some kind of solution to get rid of old windows, program files... etc but you can do with with simple delete under which you have more control.
The migration to the new drive is almost a different topic and there is many ways that not include formating to do so, but it really depends what OP want to keep from the old drive if nothing then indeed format is a quick solution (not like you need a 3rd party software to do so, you can do it under windows)
Erasing boot sector is pointless, BIOS handles which drive to boot first so if reinstall OS correctly on the new drive (with old one unattached) after the final reboot you simply plug the old drive and set correct boot drive thats it. Its not like formating drive makes it to work faster again, reinstalling OS usually does (technically its not the drive working faster but the OS itself) but thats totally different story.
If OP really wants to enjoy a fast working OS then SSD is a real savior thus recommendations with SSD, especially EVO 850 are valid. Obviously you keep that Seagate (duh i hate them) as a secondary drive for storage purposes.
Yes it does thus i don't get what is so special about dban, its not like you need to fill HDD with zeros pattern to actually hide the files you have on the drive. (that might be confusing typical format doesn't actually delete the files from the drive it just clears the Master File Table thus drive "thinks" the space is empty there but actually you are overwriting the files which where located there)
He might transfer those files on the SSD, format it and transfer it back but for a wise person its no the best option and personally I never did such.
If he has only 1 partition it is indeed some kind of solution to get rid of old windows, program files... etc but you can do with with simple delete under which you have more control.
The migration to the new drive is almost a different topic and there is many ways that not include formating to do so, but it really depends what OP want to keep from the old drive if nothing then indeed format is a quick solution (not like you need a 3rd party software to do so, you can do it under windows)
Erasing boot sector is pointless, BIOS handles which drive to boot first so if reinstall OS correctly on the new drive (with old one unattached) after the final reboot you simply plug the old drive and set correct boot drive thats it. Its not like formating drive makes it to work faster again, reinstalling OS usually does (technically its not the drive working faster but the OS itself) but thats totally different story.
If OP really wants to enjoy a fast working OS then SSD is a real savior thus recommendations with SSD, especially EVO 850 are valid. Obviously you keep that Seagate (duh i hate them) as a secondary drive for storage purposes.
Yes it does thus i don't get what is so special about dban, its not like you need to fill HDD with zeros pattern to actually hide the files you have on the drive. (that might be confusing typical format doesn't actually delete the files from the drive it just clears the Master File Table thus drive "thinks" the space is empty there but actually you are overwriting the files which where located there)
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