Does an old hard drive slow everything down?

[shazlow]

I decided to recycle the internal hard drive from my old PC because its got all my important data on. The hard drive is a 2TB one that came with my old PC in 2011. I don't know the transfer rate, but I have a feeling it's quite low.. I should mention that I have partitioned the hard drive and installed a clean windows on it. How does having an older hard drive affect my system? i7-4790, 16GB RAM, GTX 970, ASUS Z97 Mobo...

How will buying a new hard drive benefit my system?

 

[getochkn]

It can bring everything to a crawl. I've given up using old drives in new builds.

 

[shazlow]

Ok. So which drive would you recommend I use in a new build? (I can spend up to $400 - space is not a requirement. 1TB would do just fine. Speed is what I want...)

 

[getochkn]

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz75e1t0bam

1TB SSD for $350. That will be fast.

 

[shazlow]

So what makes this $350 drive worth more than the drives I see for $100?

 

[FreshRestart]

What is your budget? You probably won't need such a large capacity SDD and it is pretty expensive. A WD Black 1 TB HDD will probably do.

 

[shazlow]

I just want to know what is important for hard drives. For CPU it is GHZ, for RAM it is GB and for GPU it is also GB... But of hard drives?

 

[FreshRestart]

It depends on what you are using your drive for. For storage, capacity and reliability are most important and speed is of secondary important. For running up OS, applications, games, anything with high read/write activity speed and reliability are more important than capacity. The WD Black HDD I mentioned is probably the fastest non solid state drive you can get, and although it no where as fast as an SDD, it is a well balanced performance HDD with very good capacity, and is much more affordable than high capacity SSDs. I highly recommend it for you.

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

Only if it's failing it will be noticeable.

 

[christopherjames]

So what makes this $350 drive worth more than the drives I see for $100?

The Solid State hard drive it is many times faster than the mechanical drive. Isn't speed what you want? If you want it you have to pay for it.