The old PC I'm upgrading fitted everything onto a 160GB Seagate. So to make it better I am using a combination of a Drevo 120GB SSD as the C: drive and this 250GB Seagate as the D: drive. I am using a proceedure I found online to put Windows 7 and the Program Files on the SSD and the Users and other varable data on the larger D: physical hard drive. There are a couple of reasons why you want to do it this way. Firstly the speed gain from the SSD is a compromise with it's cost and it's small size. Talking £50 for an SSD and only £10 for a much larger HDD. By using the SSD only for what will make the computer faster we are not losing storage capacity. So this way the user gets a full 250GB for their 'stuff' and the operating system and programs get the use of the whole SSD. The problem in doing it like this is it has to be done at installation time. Which is OK because I planned to do this and the computer needed a fresh install. I am expecting boot times of under 30 seconds and almost instant program loads. It should be pretty noticeable as the computer is also going from 2GB RAM to 4GB RAM. These days 2GB RAM for Office work is restricting the computers speed and will cause it to bog down at heavy workloads, that's right when you want it to go faster! Really even 4 is not optimal but the old socket 775 board does not take any more.Read full review
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Both drives arrived quickly and worked perfectly, and at not a lot to pay for what is for my purpose a loss limitation system. I realised that I needed an economical but near fail proof backup system for my personal files. That was many gigabytes of reference documents, photographs, music, and all the other odds and ends most of us end up with filed away in the relatively invisible caverns our computers. I nearly lost all of these recently after running a total restore to my computers hard drive. That done and about a day spent reconnecting to the internet, reinstalling software, and updates etc. I plugged in my old backup hard drive to reinstall my own files and! **£@, you guessed it. The backup drive failed. So my new plan now in use, is that I bought two of these hard drives and two USB caddies to make them external drives, marked them [backup 1] and [backup 2] and strapped them both together. This makes them very stable when freestanding. So now I periodically [backup 1] and the next time [backup 2] so now even if the latest backup fails, I wont have lost so much. If you follow a similar routine of loss limitation, please consider; After all that trouble to not loose your work, how thoughtless would it be to have your computers software, hardware, backup drives and all, lost to a thief or a fire as they were all stored in the same location. I keep my backup drives in a conveniently sized plastic food box and place them in an away from the computer location.Read full review
Great brand new and boxed hard drive. Installed it and formatted it and away it went great! The price withh all HDD's of late is a little more expensive than of old but I put this down to problems in Japan.
The SATA date port is missing a chunk of plastic, causing it to become non-functional
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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