Sata II to sata III 3.5inch Hard Drive

Jamie Ottaway

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Jul 31, 2017
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Greetings,
I have sata II in my computer, running Windows 7, AMD Athlon IIx4 640 processor 3.00Ghz 64-bit, 8GB Ram with a AMD Redeon HD 5700 Graphics Card, old stuff I Know But, Runs Sonar X3 & Cubase Fine, But I've started doing lots of home video editing with Wondershare, Corel & Windows Movie Maker because not one program will do everything you need, so i have started getting some lag and Glitching, current HDD down to about 50-60GB left, i wanna update my old Seagate 320GB HDD to a Western Digital Black WD2003FZEX 2 TB 6 Gb/s / 3.5-inch / SATA /7200 RPM / 64 MB, will this help with my issue at all? Not looking to make my computer faster as it performs quite well, just want to solve this issue without having to spend lots of money and get some extra needed HDD space, and is there any other issues i could face when swaping HDD over as i wuold like the WD Black to run my operating system etc and just use the seagate 320GB for backup/storage?
Any advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks Jamie O.
 
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A newer HDD will certainly help some, and will likely be snappier even at SATA II speeds. An SSD though would be a whole lot faster for you.

That having been said, video editing on an old Athlon II is probably going to lag no matter what. Video processing is highly CPU intensive. If I were you I'd open up task manager and switch over to the performance tab. Do a bit of video editing and when you start to get lag, look back at task manager and see what was maxing out. Was it your RAM, CPU, HDD.

JaredDM

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A newer HDD will certainly help some, and will likely be snappier even at SATA II speeds. An SSD though would be a whole lot faster for you.

That having been said, video editing on an old Athlon II is probably going to lag no matter what. Video processing is highly CPU intensive. If I were you I'd open up task manager and switch over to the performance tab. Do a bit of video editing and when you start to get lag, look back at task manager and see what was maxing out. Was it your RAM, CPU, HDD.
 
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