Gaming Upgrading my HDD

[iFish]

i was wondering, if i takr out my hdd and replace it with a new one on a laptop, how will i re-install my OS? i am not worried about my programs *( i have nothing worth keeping

)*

Is it safe just to replace it? will teh pc be like new? can i use the same LEGIT install key? since this is the same pc. and can i put in SSD?

Now,anything i should be worried about? or carefull apon?

 

[Twiffles]

1. You'd "re-install" like you would any other time. With a disc.
2. Should be safe.
3. Most likely.
4. Yeah.
5. If you have money to burn, sure.
6. No
7. Just don't mess up taking out the old one/putting in the new one.

 

[iFish]

Cool. Thankies!!

That is the advantage abut using an SSD?

 

[Twiffles]

Godly read/write speeds. I personally would wait until the size of them goes up + prices go down.

 

[iFish]

Eh, might just get a 500 GB HDD then put the 300 GB in my PS3

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Eh, might just get a 500 GB HDD then put the 300 GB in my PS3.

And use the 120 GB from the ps3 as a back up... or.... i have no ideas

 

[GH0ST]

You can image your disk and put it back to the new one... or just start from the fresh new one and make a dual boot with Ubuntu at first partition ;-)

 

[iFish]

hat was what i was thinking.. maybe a dual boot... but i would know know how

i did not like ubuntu on my vm...

And i wanna start fresh.

 

[Raki]

Cool. Thankies!!

That is the advantage abut using an SSD?

fast read/write speeds + very fast access times (which makes your OS and everything on the SSD feel very snappy)

 

[Elritha]

SSD are also less prone to mechanical failure, they have no moving parts unlike traditional hard drives. That said, they can wear out the flash memory eventually from constant writing to the same sector. Chances of this is reduced considerably as the firmware on the drive makes it so that writes are written to random parts of the drive and not the same sector over and over.

 

[Thoob]

I used Acronis Migrate Easy to copy my Windows install, all files, programs and settings to a bigger hard drive. Download the demo version, I think it gives you about 3 clones or something before you need to buy it, and you only need to use it once anyway.

 

[iFish]

Cool, thanks!

Would this 300GB drive i have in my laptop, work in my PS3?

 

[Elritha]

Cool, thanks!

Would this 300GB drive i have in my laptop, work in my PS3?

If it's a 2.5 inch SATA it should be. Just format it to FAT32, not NTFS.

 

[iFish]

Cool, thanks!

Would this 300GB drive i have in my laptop, work in my PS3?

If it's a 2.5 inch SATA it should be. Just format it to FAT32, not NTFS.

My current one is an HDD.... wait... mine is ntfs... why is that? and what is bad about it? i thought the PS3 will formate it for me!

 

[Urza]

SSD are also less prone to mechanical failure, they have no moving parts unlike traditional hard drives. That said, they can wear out the flash memory eventually from constant writing to the same sector. Chances of this is reduced considerably as the firmware on the drive makes it so that writes are written to random parts of the drive and not the same sector over and over.

After the math even consumer-grade MLC drives have virtually no chance of "wearing out." Writing to an 80GB model (with market average write speeds) at the max rated speed 24/7 would still take about a year to wear out, and obviously very few consumers will even come close to such abuse.

Sidenote: The feature you refer to ("wear-leveling") generally doesn't allocate sectors randomly. There is logic involved which is designed to try and distribute evenly across the entire drive.

 

[Elritha]

My current one is an HDD.... wait... mine is ntfs... why is that? and what is bad about it? i thought the PS3 will formate it for me!

It's either going to be IDE (Parallel ATA) or a SATA drive. Newer laptops tend to have SATA drives. NTFS is just the prefered filesystem Windows now uses. The PS3 cannot read that type. I'm pretty sure the PS3 will prompt you to format it anyway.

 

[iFish]

I'm pretty sure the PS3 will prompt you to format it anyway.

That is what i thought, Thanks for the help!

 

[Originality]

Just to add for SSDs, whilst the price is high, the boost in performance is marked. The most obvious difference is that Windows tends to load in around half the time (compared to HDDs).

IIRC, it takes around 27-36 seconds to load Windows 7 on a SSD, and 59-160 seconds on a HDD. Obviously this is also affected by quality of drive and of the system itself (CPU/RAM/chipset).