So I'm thinking about getting a new hard drive for my desktop - mainly because it's the only thing that I can imagine that's causing my computer to run slow - occasional freezing up, REALLY slow start-up (quad core processor, 4 gb ram...) It's also kind of full so that may also be a reason (currently 500 GB). So I've been looking at a couple of options
- The first is the WD Velociraptor 600 GB - 10000 RPM... enough said
- The second is a WD Black Caviar 2TB - at first I wasn't considering something like this, since I thought the RPM would make a big difference, but I've heard that since the... density of the platters? - I'm not exactly sure - is greater on these, they are actually close in speed to the Velociraptor (I looked up a benchmark and it seems to confirm this)
- The third is a Seagate Barracuda 3TB - same reason as above... just not sure whether Seagate or WD and which one may perform better.
- The fourth is actually a hard drive I've been looking at for my laptop... which is also running slow probably because of a defective, not an old hard drive - the one I'm looking at here is the Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB hybrid drive - I was thinking I might be able to put that in my desktop too?
In general, I have a lot of stuff on my computer and I don't really want to restore + there isn't going to be a new computer for at least a year. The thing that I think would be best upgrade-able for general performance seems to be the hard drive.
If you got any other hard drive suggestions let me know. Thanks in advance!
- The first is the WD Velociraptor 600 GB - 10000 RPM... enough said
- The second is a WD Black Caviar 2TB - at first I wasn't considering something like this, since I thought the RPM would make a big difference, but I've heard that since the... density of the platters? - I'm not exactly sure - is greater on these, they are actually close in speed to the Velociraptor (I looked up a benchmark and it seems to confirm this)
- The third is a Seagate Barracuda 3TB - same reason as above... just not sure whether Seagate or WD and which one may perform better.
- The fourth is actually a hard drive I've been looking at for my laptop... which is also running slow probably because of a defective, not an old hard drive - the one I'm looking at here is the Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB hybrid drive - I was thinking I might be able to put that in my desktop too?
In general, I have a lot of stuff on my computer and I don't really want to restore + there isn't going to be a new computer for at least a year. The thing that I think would be best upgrade-able for general performance seems to be the hard drive.
If you got any other hard drive suggestions let me know. Thanks in advance!