Is this a good Internal Hard drive?

Des_Zac

Des_Zac

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Seagate Barracuda 1 TB Internal hard drive - 600 MBps - 7200 rpm

It is 60 dollars (US)

I need a reliable hard drive that is right around that 50-60 dollar range to replace my 3 hard drives.

One is 127gb, one is 68.3gb, and one is 37.2gb. < :D

Any input is helpful.
 
Well that a fair thought but what happens when you transfer all your stuff to the 1TB drive and all of a sudden it rolls over and dies?
 
I don't know, I'm going to keep everything on the smaller hds and also copy everything over, but I do plan on getting a backup later but as I've said in other threads Its not my money, it's my parents money and my mom said that we can get a new hard drive (since were down to around 1gb of space on our C drive. So I'm trying to save as much money as possible while still keeping pretty good relability and space.
 
XP, but I'm hoping to go up to 7 soon. I'm afraid that alot of my older programs might not work though, so I'm trying to get my old laptop fixed to put them on. So as soon as I get that fixed I plan on upgrading it.
 
I'm running a 3.4ghz processor and 4gigs of ram so thats fine, that only problem I see is I don't know how to tell if its a 32 or 64 bit computer.

Also, could I get vista then upgrade?
 
Wolfeymole said:
Well that a fair thought but what happens when you transfer all your stuff to the 1TB drive and all of a sudden it rolls over and dies?
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That's what backups are for. Having 3 drives gives you 3X as much chance of a drive failure as 1 drive.
 
Des_Zac said:
I'm running a 3.4ghz processor and 4gigs of ram so thats fine, that only problem I see is I don't know how to tell if its a 32 or 64 bit computer.

Also, could I get vista then upgrade?
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That is a possible way to go but requires that you have to buy 2 OSes. You can legally upgrade from Win XP to Win 7, it's just that there isn't a path to do an in-place upgrade so you will need to do a clean install of Win 7 and re-install all of your apps. As long as you have all your install CDs and such it isn't a big deal.
 
Yeah, I have like 4% of the install disks that I know where they are, and many of them broke, so there's no chance of that happening. Can I just install Windows 7 on the new drive THEN copy everything over to it, and use XP mode for all of the other programs that aren't compatible with 7?
 
Wolfeymole said:
Well make sure the pc has the requirements to run 7 Dez.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/system-requirements

Bear in mind that you can't do an upgrade from XP to 7, it will have to be a clean install so the price of 7 has to be taken into consideration too.
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strollin said:
That is a possible way to go but requires that you have to buy 2 OSes. You can legally upgrade from Win XP to Win 7, it's just that there isn't a path to do an in-place upgrade so you will need to do a clean install of Win 7 and re-install all of your apps. As long as you have all your install CDs and such it isn't a big deal.
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You can upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7. If you're presently running XP Professional, you can upgrade directly to Windows 7 Professional, or Ultimate. You can not upgrade from Windows XP Home Edition, to Windows 7.

Edit: I will eat my words right now, since I just second guessed myself after I posted. It will allow the upgrade, but will force a clean installation. Kinda defeats the purpose of the upgrade.
 
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Yes, but I don't know If I just have 32 when I CAN run 64 is what I'm saying, I didn't make the computer my uncle did.
 
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