Needing a new harddrive

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YoMoma

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My current one is only a 250 GB Western Digital.
I want a 1 terrabyte internal harddrive because I have lots of music and movies and even some games.
I plan on reformatting once I get a new harddrive, if I utilise my old drive. I just want 1 bigger harddrive. I`m not looking to have raid set up at all. Just want more disk space.
Should I yank out my 250 gig drive and place a new terrabyte drive in it`s place, or could I configure both drives for use?
Maybe go with a USB drive instead?
Whats your opinions?
 
If you want a primary OS/apps drive, go for the Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB WD1001FALS or the new Samsung F3 drive (500GB platters).

If you want a storage drive, I recommend the Western Digital Green WD10EADS.
 
PC_User suggested some good drives. The old 250gb drive would be best as one of these:

1. Put it in an external USB case as backup if you don't already have a backup solution.

2. Leave it in your system but configure it as a secondary drive as extra storage beyond the 1tb primary drive. Any newer drive will outperform it.
 
[LYL]Homer;1034906853 said:
PC_User suggested some good drives. The old 250gb drive would be best as one of these:

1. Put it in an external USB case as backup if you don't already have a backup solution.

2. Leave it in your system but configure it as a secondary drive as extra storage beyond the 1tb primary drive. Any newer drive will outperform it.
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2 very good ideas.
Another question. If I were to leave the old 250 gig drive in, would it work better to just put the operating system on that drive and anything else on the new terrabyte drive? Would this aid in faster boot ups? Or would it be just as fast using only the terrabyte drive for everything? Assuming the new drive might outperform it?
 
Put the OS on the new drive. The new drive will outperform the old 250gb one, it'll boot faster. It doesn't really matter if the new drive is OS plus a bunch of media files or whatever.

On a 1tb drive I would probably partition 100gb for OS/apps/games and the rest for storage. This isn't done for performance, more that in case you need to reinstall your OS you can leave all the media on the secondary storage partition in place and just re-do the C: drive primary partition.
 
[LYL]Homer;1034911642 said:
Put the OS on the new drive. The new drive will outperform the old 250gb one, it'll boot faster. It doesn't really matter if the new drive is OS plus a bunch of media files or whatever.
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I agree. You probably want to get a 1TB Samsung F3 and just keep your OS and files there. Or get a smaller but fast drive for the OS and a larger hard drive (such as the Western Digital Green) for storage.
 
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