hdd upgrade advice

[monzoid]

hi i am looking for a new hard drive i found a new one at a great price western digital wd10ezex 1tb i currently have a 250gb wd2500aaks 80% full and i think it's dying, even if it wasn't dying would i see a noticeable performance increase

 

[elbert]

I suggest a cheap ssd boot drive to add to the 1TB WD.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Storage: Crucial MX300 275GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($69.98 @ B&H)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $118.87
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-11-10 21:28 EST-0500

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there monzoid,

Sorry that you are facing some issues with your WD drive.

As you believe that there's is something wrong with it, it would be a really good idea to back up the data stored on it. After that, you can run both and extended DLG tests, so you can see whether and what is wrong with it: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=bkon4s

Apart from that, if your current HDD is in a healthy state, then you will not really experience noticeable performance difference. Generally speaking, drives with bigger capacity are faster than smaller ones. (if we assume they have same RPM, just like in your case) Yet, it wouldn't be that noticeable.
If your current HDD has poor performance because of the fact that it is failing, then yes, you will get shorted boot and loading times with the new HDD.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD