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In response to "Hey tech people. If your 5 year old computer had an OS hard drive failure, would you just replace the drive or get a new computer?" by sycor

Depends on many things. I assume that is a SATA drive at that age. You can get an SSD drive pretty cheap and speed that sucker up.

Posted by bacon (aka Redmond) Apr 30 '20, 07:11

If it has a good amount of Ram, a decent video card, no reason to replace it unless you have the money to spend.

If money isn't an issue, get a new one.

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This. Dropping an SSD into an older SATA computer seems like a huge performance boost because those spinning hard drives are so notoriously slow -- nm - oblique Apr 30, 07:18 1
- so it makes things go Zoom Zoom? -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 30, 08:03
Yeah I was thinking SSD. Just using onboard video, don't really game. 8G RAM I think, I honestly don't remember. - sycor Apr 30, 07:14 15
- If you don't game, and don't use programs that are taxing (video editing, etc), SSD is a cheap way to go to get it up and running. - bacon Apr 30, 07:16
- for now I would say consider buying an SSD (they can be pretty cheap, $50 ish, depending on the capacity) and then see if you can manage to rescue - tRuMaN Apr 30, 07:16 13
  - Hopefully all the data is backed up on my external drive. So not too worried about that. But it was a 1TB drive so going to a SSD is going to lose a - sycor Apr 30, 07:18 11
    - the other benefit of dropping an ssd in is that the system performance will increase a lot, so if it was fine for you before - tRuMaN Apr 30, 07:24
    - I just checked, a 1tb SSD drive is between $100 and $150 on Amazon. They really got cheep. A few years ago that would be over a thousand bucks -- nm - bacon Apr 30, 07:20 3
      - This one gets an 83% 5 Star Rating. I used to worry about brand name but lately I don't if the reviews are tight. -- (link) - bacon Apr 30, 07:22 2
        
        Fakespot grade = D -- (link) - Shaun Apr 30, 07:23 1
        
        Ouchie! Crucial below should be higher. Check that one -- nm - bacon Apr 30, 07:24
    - 1TB SSDs aren't stupidly expensive, the last time I checked. -- nm - Shaun Apr 30, 07:19 5
      - Crucial 1tb ssd $118. -- (link) - tRuMaN Apr 30, 07:23
      - Samsung EVO 1TB SSD = $170 -- (link) - Shaun Apr 30, 07:21 2
        
        That's what I have now -- nm - bacon Apr 30, 07:22 1
        
        Oops I just checked. I went 2TB Samsung Evo, but I know it was under $200 when I got it. -- nm - bacon Apr 30, 07:24
      - The prices fell drastically in the last 2 years -- nm - bacon Apr 30, 07:20
  - Also the good thing is, when you finally do get a new pc you can move the SSD over to that one as a backup drive. (so not wasting money) -- nm - bacon Apr 30, 07:17

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Depends on many things. I assume that is a SATA drive at that age. You can get an SSD drive pretty cheap and speed that sucker up.

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