New drives for older PC

builder22 · 28 Jul 2017 at 14:13

My PC is fairly old. Abit IP35 Pro, E8400 cpu.
The HDDs are getting really noisey, takes forever for it to.process a folder if you change the 'sort by' setting.

Wondering if I'm limited to what drives i can get due to the old mobo?

I'd get an SSD for the main drive and a larger storage drive

If I copied the data on my current storage drive to a new one would that likely solve the problem I mention when trying to sort by date/name etc?

ANDARIAL · 28 Jul 2017 at 17:04

Checked the SMART data?
But a new drive would be better/safer/quieter
Def get a Sec for the boot drive though
Would be limited to sata2

builder22 · 28 Jul 2017 at 17:26

Never used SMART
I see you need an app to get detailed info...could u recommend one?
I'm on win10

Cheers

ANDARIAL · 28 Jul 2017 at 17:28

Maybe hdtune?
Still on W7 so don't know if it works.

Wrinkly · 28 Jul 2017 at 18:13

builder22 said:
The HDDs are getting really noisey

I hope you are backing up your data.

builder22 · 29 Jul 2017 at 15:43

All the health status things say OK - not tried any of the apps yet...

I haven't got anything to back up to....should maybe get an external drive for that..

ANDARIAL · 29 Jul 2017 at 17:12

If your files are important then you should have a backup of some sort.either to the cloud and/ or an external HDD

dmsims · 30 Jul 2017 at 21:48

For Smart try Hard disk sentinel