Good morning! I'm in the process of updating my computer and wish to fit newer, and larger, HDDs as part of my upgrade. At present I've got a 6-year old OEM 5400rpm 500GB SATA HDD which I think is Samsung. My motherboard is an Asus P5Q Pro Turbo which I supports SATA 3Gb p/s and it's all powered by a C2Q Q9650 with Windows 7 Home Premium.
I'm looking to get a WD Velociraptor 600GB 10k rpm to put my OS and games onto and a Seagate Barracude 1TB 7200 rpm for my documents, music and so forth.
Would thsi provide an appreciable increase in performance as, according to WEI, the HDD is what's slowing my system down. In total these drives willl cost about £250 but I don't want a SSD as they're too expensive IMO and I've heard they only last for a certian number of read/writes.
Any advice is appreciated! Thanks in advance, David
I'm looking to get a WD Velociraptor 600GB 10k rpm to put my OS and games onto and a Seagate Barracude 1TB 7200 rpm for my documents, music and so forth.
Would thsi provide an appreciable increase in performance as, according to WEI, the HDD is what's slowing my system down. In total these drives willl cost about £250 but I don't want a SSD as they're too expensive IMO and I've heard they only last for a certian number of read/writes.
Any advice is appreciated! Thanks in advance, David