Hard drive upgrade questions

[UKflames]

I am finally in a position to upgrade my poor 160gb sata hard drive for a 1tb drive but I have a couple of questions that I need a bit of help on.

1) My motherboard is an old NF7-S and, according to the advice in the sata sticky, it should accept sata II drives but would it be okay with a sata III drive. I beleive it will but I won't get all of the features that the drives come with, does that sound correct?

2) I have been trying to decide on which drive to buy once the above has been cleasred up.
WD - seem to be the drive of choice at the moment, are the WD green drives okay?
Hitachi- these seem to have good feedback but are now part of WD, are they still okay, any versions to avoid?
Samsung - from my research it seems these are to be avoided,although they seem to be on special everwhere, are they bad drives?

Any other suggestions?

Sorry for the long post and thank you for any help.

 

[rpstewart]

You'll be fine running a SATA3 drive, they're backwards compatible. There aren't any features which you won't have access to and there won't be a performance hit either since mechanical drives don't get close to sata2 speeds, let alone sata3

For a brand they're all pretty much the same. Anything you have which is important should be backed up anyway. If you can get a good deal on a Samsung f3 then its worth thinking about but only if its a good deal, they're a bit old these days so a newer Seagate or WD will be quicker.

 

[UKflames]

You'll be fine running a SATA3 drive, they're backwards compatible. There aren't any features which you won't have access to and there won't be a performance hit either since mechanical drives don't get close to sata2 speeds, let alone sata3

For a brand they're all pretty much the same. Anything you have which is important should be backed up anyway. If you can get a good deal on a Samsung f3 then its worth thinking about but only if its a good deal, they're a bit old these days so a newer Seagate or WD will be quicker.

Thanks I appreciate the help, back to digging for a good deal then.