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geeeeoffff1   09-08-2008 at 01:11:46 AM

i'm upgrading my cpu, mobo and ram.

i was thinking of replacing my system drive too. my HDD is over 3 years old. the main reasons for replacing the drive would be 1. more space. 2. to avoid a drive failure.

i'm thinking, all hard drives fail eventually, but how frequently should i replace my hard drive? i really do not want it to fail mid-quarter because that is super annoying.


thanks.

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br3nd064   09-08-2008 at 02:18:51 AM
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How big is the hard drive? IDE or Sata?

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Nik_I   09-08-2008 at 02:29:51 AM
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you shouldn't really even have to replace it. unless you get a dud, hard drives can last for a very long time. i have an old seagate .5GB hard drive from 1995 that still works. i obviously have no use for it but it works nonetheless.

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dagger   09-08-2008 at 02:46:16 AM
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geeeeoffff1 wrote :

sata, it's 120gigs



Meh, it's still good. Keep it as a second storage drive.

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br3nd064   09-08-2008 at 02:47:02 AM
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Don't bother. Hard drives are very reliable. Unless you really need more space, I wouldn't worry about it.

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chunkymonster   09-08-2008 at 03:06:45 AM
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geeeeoffff1 wrote :

how frequently should i replace my hard drive? i really do not want it to fail mid-quarter because that is super annoying.



Annoying as it may be, that is the time to replace a hard drive, when it fails.

Also, if you are worried about a drive failing and losing data, then be sure to create back-ups any important files. One word; redundancy!

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bobbknight   09-08-2008 at 03:34:24 AM
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Yea mid quarter is a real pain. I like it when my drive fail at the end of the quarter.
Now a days if I have data I just can't lose, it goes on an extra hard drive and dvd.
When I make a new system, I like to buy a new drive for it.
Invariably a drive will fail before the last backup was done and data gets lost.

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