Recommend me a Hard Drive

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MrHood22

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I think my current HD is dying or just naturally slow. It's a WD 250 7200rpm SATA. It's probably about 2 years old.

The rest of my system is pretty quick but I feel like the HD is holding me back. Sometimes it will take programs a little extra time to load and boot up is pretty slow. I have numerous data drives so all i'm looking for is a quick HD to run my OS (windows 7) off of. I was thinking a minimum of 40gb would be fine.

Any suggestions? 10,000 RPM, 15,000 RPM, or SSD?
 
Honestly there is no comparison between SSD and HDD

I strongly encourage you to buy an Intel SSD and play around with it, rejoice in the speed.
 
all the Intel SSD i'm seeing are 2.5 inch. I see some 3.5" but they're all by OCZ.
 
Pretty much all of the SSDs are 2.5 - some of the retail ones come with an adapter. Otherwise you can pick up a cheap 2.5 to 3.5 adapter - the form factor is certainly not a criteria to use when choosing between HDD and SSD or different SSDs.
 
For the price of a SSD you can also consider a big HDD to consolidate your data as well.

40GB is too small, my Windows and Users folders combined already take 40GB, and I don't even store any music, picture, video, document, or download there.
Anything less and you constantly need to micromanage your storage, remember to install big apps or games to the HDD, etc.
 
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