I'm looking for a little feedback on a hard drive upgrade I'm considering for my laptop. I have a low end Acer Extensia 5230E that has a WD 160 GB 5400 RPM 8 MB cache. I'm considering an upgrade to a WD 320 GB 7200 RPM 16 MB cache that newegg has on sale right now. I'm wondering if this upgrade is going to make any noticeable difference. The laptop is running Windows 7 64 bit and when I run the system advisor, I have an overall score of 3.3, with the video being the big letdown. The CPU is a 2.2 Celeron. The current HD score is 5.0 or something close to that.
Like I said, the laptop is low end but it gets the job done for work and I could use the extra space, but I don't know if the $70 for the HD is a good investment or not.
Also, anyone ever us HDClone to copy the contents of one HD to another?
Thanks in advance for your comments!
Acer Laptop Hard Drive Upgrade
Acer Laptop Hard Drive Upgrade
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do yourself a favour and get the 7200rpm drive, especially if you plan on running Windows 7. 5400 is that much slower and the noise issues of the past aren't even really a factor anymore.
As for whether or not you'll see a difference, load times will be slightly faster and will things will generally run smoother.
As for copying / ghost, Acronis Trueimage is pretty good these days.
As for whether or not you'll see a difference, load times will be slightly faster and will things will generally run smoother.
As for copying / ghost, Acronis Trueimage is pretty good these days.
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Asus P5N-D
OCZ Platinum 8gb (2x2gb) PC8000 1000mhz 5-5-5-18
EVGA 460GTX 1gb PCIE 2.0
Western Digital Black 640gb x 2 Raid 0
Coolermaster 1000W Modular PSU
Antec NSK4480B
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
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Linksys WRT-150 running DD-WRT V.24 (Access Point)
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I picked up one of these to copy the HD:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6812156017
WD has a free version of Acronis to download, so I'll go with that. I'll let you know how much improvement I see this weekend.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6812156017
WD has a free version of Acronis to download, so I'll go with that. I'll let you know how much improvement I see this weekend.
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Asus P5Q-E LGA 775 / Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale / Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro / NVIDIA GTX650 Ti Boost / Corsair Dominator 8GB DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) / Corsair CMPSU-650TX / Asus 20X DRW-2014L1T / Klipsch 4.1 / Creative Sound Blaster Z / Crucial MX100 CT512MX100SSD1 2.5" 512GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive / Too many hard drives to mention.....
Asus P5Q-E LGA 775 / Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale / Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro / NVIDIA GTX650 Ti Boost / Corsair Dominator 8GB DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) / Corsair CMPSU-650TX / Asus 20X DRW-2014L1T / Klipsch 4.1 / Creative Sound Blaster Z / Crucial MX100 CT512MX100SSD1 2.5" 512GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive / Too many hard drives to mention.....