What kind of Hard do I need?

[Tjmobus]

I know it has to be Sata but I don't know any other specs I need. I have a g3258 intel CPU, and an h97 pro 4 MOBO.

 

[rockie_]

WD 1TB Blue
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd10ezex

 

[jazzy663]

I think you mean "hard drive". I chuckled a little, reading the title of your post.

If you know that it has to be SATA, then really there's not much more to it than that. The one thing I will say is that since your motherboard has SATA 3 connectors, then it would be beneficial to buy a SATA 3 drive, as these are the fastest.

Here's one such drive, the one I use, it's probably the most popular model on the market. This is just an example, you don't have to buy this one.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236339

Now granted, there are differences in specifications between drives such as Cache, RPM and whatnot, but I don't have the knowledge to explain them and to an average user I don't think they mean much. About the best I can say is that I always try to get 7200RPM drives when I buy new drives.

Hope I helped.

 

[Tjmobus]

I think you mean "hard drive". I chuckled a little, reading the title of your post.

If you know that it has to be SATA, then really there's not much more to it than that. The one thing I will say is that since your motherboard has SATA 3 connectors, then it would be beneficial to buy a SATA 3 drive, as these are the fastest.

Here's one such drive, the one I use, it's probably the most popular model on the market. This is just an example, you don't have to buy this one.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236339

Now granted, there are differences in specifications between drives such as Cache, RPM and whatnot, but I don't have the knowledge to explain them and to an average user I don't think they mean much. About the best I can say is that I always try to get 7200RPM drives when I buy new drives.

Hope I helped.

hahaaha I did in fact mean hard drive... Sorry man been a long two days.... I purchased 5 components for a new computer, Vid card, cpu, power supply, MOBO, and some Ram. After building the computer (my first time) I had to reformat it because I'm switching to Intel from AMD. SOOOO. After doing all of that, I reformat, and for some ungodly reason the computer runs SLOOOOOW. Well. I decided to try to reformat it again just in case, and when I went to do it the second time I was informed that I may have a bad hard drive...

So. I'm really hoping that's what it is because after I: Removed everything unnecessary from the MOBO, all the USBs, enabled ACHI, and disabled SMART, and then reformatting two more times, once in 64 and once in 86, it still runs slow.. So I pray to the lord it's the hard drive lol.

 

[boosted1g]

WD Blue is a good tried and true drive tha twill be affordable with good performance

WD Black does not have much speed improvement but has a 5 year warranty over the 2 year of the Blue

If you really wanted to get a performance increase you should look at a Solid State Drive. They load programs and boot windows over 20x faster. The trade off is that 120gb drive is $70 while you can get 1000gb of a traditional hard drive for $55-60.
The best combination is a solid state drive for windows and programs, and a regular drive for backups and mass storage (like if you have a large music. photos, or video collection).

 

[jazzy663]

I think you mean "hard drive". I chuckled a little, reading the title of your post.

If you know that it has to be SATA, then really there's not much more to it than that. The one thing I will say is that since your motherboard has SATA 3 connectors, then it would be beneficial to buy a SATA 3 drive, as these are the fastest.

Here's one such drive, the one I use, it's probably the most popular model on the market. This is just an example, you don't have to buy this one.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236339

Now granted, there are differences in specifications between drives such as Cache, RPM and whatnot, but I don't have the knowledge to explain them and to an average user I don't think they mean much. About the best I can say is that I always try to get 7200RPM drives when I buy new drives.

Hope I helped.

hahaaha I did in fact mean hard drive... Sorry man been a long two days.... I purchased 5 components for a new computer, Vid card, cpu, power supply, MOBO, and some Ram. After building the computer (my first time) I had to reformat it because I'm switching to Intel from AMD. SOOOO. After doing all of that, I reformat, and for some ungodly reason the computer runs SLOOOOOW. Well. I decided to try to reformat it again just in case, and when I went to do it the second time I was informed that I may have a bad hard drive...

So. I'm really hoping that's what it is because after I: Removed everything unnecessary from the MOBO, all the USBs, enabled ACHI, and disabled SMART, and then reformatting two more times, once in 64 and once in 86, it still runs slow.. So I pray to the lord it's the hard drive lol.

A bad or failing hard drive is a likely candidate. I speak from experience, I've replaced the hard drive in my dad's laptop and my own because both of them went bad, and both machines run like brand new now. Luckily the hard drive is usually the cheapest component to replace.

 

[Tjmobus]

Thank both of you guys for your swift and very knowledgeable answers! It really does help, I hope it's the drive I really do. It takes over 15 minutes just to boot up... Thank for the help guys!!