I started having problems with my seagate 1.5 TB harddrive. It started clicking loud, spinning took longer, and every now and then it would just dissapear (quiting the games installed on it, i was playing at the time). And now it doesn’t work at all any more, i can hear it spin but it won’t show up on my desktop, only in the bios.
I looked up the model number (Seagate ST31500341as) and apperently louds of people have problems with that same drive. I looked if i could update the firmware but already have the latest version, so basically i’m looking at replacing that drive now.
At the moment i have this Asus P5b mainboard (http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5B/#overview ) with a Quadcore intel 2.4 ghz, with 6 GB ram, and these drives :
- Sata 320 GB, split in 2 partitions, one running my win 7 OS.
- Sata 500 GB
- Sata 1.5 TB, which is the broken one i want to replace.
I want to replace that 1.5 TB one with a 3 TB one, and then install my OS on a partition on that drive, as the new harddrive will be faster then that 320 GB one.
However i’m now reading things about my mainboard not being able to recognise the full 3 TB, and also not being able to use it as a boot disk, only as a data disk ?
I am gonna get a new mainboard/cpu bundle at xmas, which is this one : “Intel i5 3570k @ 4.4GHz - Asus P8Z77-V LX - 16GB Corsair DDR3 Overclocked Gaming Bundle” so i will have a new mainboard in a 2 months.
Could i just install that new 3 TB drive, split it into partitions, use the data partition i want for data, and save the partition i want for my OS untill i get my new mainboard, and then install win 7 on it, or is there some trick i can do on my current mainboard so i can install an OS on it now and use it as a boot disk.
Also, if i want to do that (use 1 partition now, and keep the other one unused untill i get my new mainboard, and then install my OS on it), do i need to partition the disk as mrb or gtp ?
The seagate i'm replacing has got "7200rpm 32MB Cache" and the one i'm looking at WD Caviar Green has got "5900 64MB Cache", is there gonna be a lot of difference in speed, what's more important, the cache or the rpm ?
I looked up the model number (Seagate ST31500341as) and apperently louds of people have problems with that same drive. I looked if i could update the firmware but already have the latest version, so basically i’m looking at replacing that drive now.
At the moment i have this Asus P5b mainboard (http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5B/#overview ) with a Quadcore intel 2.4 ghz, with 6 GB ram, and these drives :
- Sata 320 GB, split in 2 partitions, one running my win 7 OS.
- Sata 500 GB
- Sata 1.5 TB, which is the broken one i want to replace.
I want to replace that 1.5 TB one with a 3 TB one, and then install my OS on a partition on that drive, as the new harddrive will be faster then that 320 GB one.
However i’m now reading things about my mainboard not being able to recognise the full 3 TB, and also not being able to use it as a boot disk, only as a data disk ?
I am gonna get a new mainboard/cpu bundle at xmas, which is this one : “Intel i5 3570k @ 4.4GHz - Asus P8Z77-V LX - 16GB Corsair DDR3 Overclocked Gaming Bundle” so i will have a new mainboard in a 2 months.
Could i just install that new 3 TB drive, split it into partitions, use the data partition i want for data, and save the partition i want for my OS untill i get my new mainboard, and then install win 7 on it, or is there some trick i can do on my current mainboard so i can install an OS on it now and use it as a boot disk.
Also, if i want to do that (use 1 partition now, and keep the other one unused untill i get my new mainboard, and then install my OS on it), do i need to partition the disk as mrb or gtp ?
The seagate i'm replacing has got "7200rpm 32MB Cache" and the one i'm looking at WD Caviar Green has got "5900 64MB Cache", is there gonna be a lot of difference in speed, what's more important, the cache or the rpm ?
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