HD dying is this time to upgrade system?

[Davisteve1]

I have Win 7 system with a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P MB (Rev 1.0) with an Intel® (LGA775) Core™2 Duo Processor E8400
(6M Cache, 3.00 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB with 8 GB DDR2 1366. This is SATA II and USB 2.0 hardware, my video card is a GeForce 9800 GTX. One of my original 1TB HD is failing and I don't know if it is wise to upgrade the MB and necessary CPU/MEM and move to SATA 3 HD or just get a new SATA II HD and call it quits.
I do not game, so wonder if it is most expedient to stay where I am or upgrade. My Windows Experience index is 5.9 with the HDD and 6.6 on the processor with the rest at 6.9. My need for a better HHD is evident and the next would a possible CPU upgrade. Would moving to a quad be worth it or just jump to a new MB+++?

I want to be wise and spend where there is value. The use is minimal-office type work, movies from Amazon, Photo and would like to do some video editing of phone movies-I have Adobe Elements for photo and video.

I need to get this system up and going to see if I can recover some HDD Data and need to determine what HDD to get in the 2T or greater range and need to know if it should be SATA 3 or the same SATA 2 and keep going as is.

Thanks for any input. I built this system about 2008-9 I think (based on the MB revision dates) and has been on 24/7.

 

[DarnitD]

sata3 Drives will work on sata2 ports. Don't think it can be larger then 2tb for boot drives for storage i think you would need to partition it into 2tb segments not sure though about the 2tb thing.

you would see a good increase in performance with todays entry level/ budget items. pentium g4400. now whether you need it is up to you. but replacing motherboard/cpu/ram with entry level items will cost you around $140-150usd before taxes.

if you are trying to be frugal just by a new hdd unless you are having problems other then HDD issues. you could also swap your boot drive with an ssd even on sata2 it would be a good upgrade if you aren't using one.

 

[Davisteve1]

sata3 Drives will work on sata2 ports. Don't think it can be larger then 2tb for boot drives for storage i think you would need to partition it into 2tb segments not sure though about the 2tb thing.

you would see a good increase in performance with todays entry level/ budget items. pentium g4400. now whether you need it is up to you. but replacing motherboard/cpu/ram with entry level items will cost you around $140-150usd before taxes.

if you are trying to be frugal just by a new hdd unless you are having problems other then HDD issues. you could also swap your boot drive with an ssd even on sata2 it would be a good upgrade if you aren't using one.

 

[Davisteve1]

I did find a sale on today on a HGST Deskstar NAS H3IKNAS40003272SN (0S03664) 4TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" High-Performance Hard Drive for Desktop NAS Systems Retail Kit for $158. I could partition that out. It would work for a new entry level system later right?

 

[DarnitD]

yes larger then 2tb drives should work on modern motherboards.