Old hard drive with new motherboard?
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GorfTheFrog
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Yes, assuming that the MB supports the HD interface. For example suppose your MB has only SATA-3 connections. If you have a SATA 2 drive you're good to go. If the HD is an IDE drive, then you're out of luck.
Whether or not the HD is formatted is not relevant. You can re-format the drive when you install the OS on the new machine.
Hope this helps.
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Yes, assuming that the MB supports the HD interface. For example suppose your MB has only SATA-3 connections. If you have a SATA 2 drive you're good to go. If the HD is an IDE drive, then you're out of luck.
Whether or not the HD is formatted is not relevant. You can re-format the drive when you install the OS on the new machine.
Hope this helps.
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Another thought - depending upon how "old" the drive is, you may want to run something like Passmark's DiskCheckup (assuming that the drive reports SMART monitoring) to be sure that it is still in serviceable condition and not reporting any pending failures.
http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm
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Another thought - depending upon how "old" the drive is, you may want to run something like Passmark's DiskCheckup (assuming that the drive reports SMART monitoring) to be sure that it is still in serviceable condition and not reporting any pending failures.
http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm
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Do you have the proper connectors ? new SATA ports / wires provided won't attach to an old IDE drive.
http://pinouts.ru/HD/AtaInternal_pinout.shtml
http://pinoutguide.com/HD/serialATA_pinout.shtml
http://pinouts.ru/HD/AtaInternal_pinout.shtml
http://pinoutguide.com/HD/serialATA_pinout.shtml
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Depends, the Optiplex 270 was available with a few different drive configurations, and only one of them was SATA. Most likely its an old and SLOW drive and it may not connect.
You should consider a new drive, you can get a 1tb hard drive for 50 bucks these days.
Also you will need to format it and install a new copy of Windows. If you can even plug it in, don't expect it to boot up. It most likely won't.
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Then it will work no problem. You're still going to need to re-install windows on it though. Also how big is it?
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Ok 180 is enough for Windows and a couple games (as long as they aren't too crazy). You should be fine
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180 GB would be an extremely old HD ... If an SSD is not in the cards for budgetary reasons, I'd suggest an SSHD
If it is a 180 GB drive that means to everybody else who doesn't speak "marketing", it's a 167 GB drive. With the recommended 15% free you are down to 142 GB ... Windows folder is good for 50 GB, main user file 10GB .. with other odds and ends including uninstall and recovery files, after 6 months you are looking at 80GB ... leaving just 62 GB for programs and games ... GTAV is 95 GB
A newish performance 7200 rpm HD boots in 21.2 seconds
SSD boots in 15.6
SSHD boots in 16.5
For gaming SSHD is 50% faster than a performance oriented HD such as the WD Black
http://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#t=1&i=25&f=2&sort=a10
If it is a 180 GB drive that means to everybody else who doesn't speak "marketing", it's a 167 GB drive. With the recommended 15% free you are down to 142 GB ... Windows folder is good for 50 GB, main user file 10GB .. with other odds and ends including uninstall and recovery files, after 6 months you are looking at 80GB ... leaving just 62 GB for programs and games ... GTAV is 95 GB
A newish performance 7200 rpm HD boots in 21.2 seconds
SSD boots in 15.6
SSHD boots in 16.5
For gaming SSHD is 50% faster than a performance oriented HD such as the WD Black
http://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#t=1&i=25&f=2&sort=a10
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SSHD's are a complete lie. I've used them several times in builds, and NOT once, I repeat, NOT once, have I gotten EVEN close to SSD boot times. I've looked at ways of optimizing them, but nothing worked. Just do yourself a favor and get a SSD, so much better in the long run.
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