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Best *hard drive* to use as Windows 7 boot drive?

htwingnut

htwingnut

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I've decided to ditch the SSD in my desktop and pocket the money, but will need a replacement hard drive for the SSD.

Which hard drive would be the best to use as a Windows 7 OS drive? I'd prefer under $60, and capacity really isn't much of an issue. Preferably 160GB or greater though.

I'm considering the Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB for $54.99 or the WD Caviar Black 500GB for $59.99. Seems smaller drives don't necessarily mean better performance either.

At newegg.com the WD's are very popular, but the spinpoints tend to get mostly very high overall ratings. Something else to consider?
 
The 1Tb Spinpoint is $55 at NE with a promo code. The first 500Gb will be quite a bit faster than the 500Gb drive, and you get the other 500Gb for free.

Edit: jjm beat me to it!
 
You linked to a defrag utility, and they want money after 30 days. Auslogics Disk Defrag is free, and I think it works pretty good.

I think what you are looking for is Disk Management in Windows. Partition Wizard does some stuff the Windows utility can't do, and it's free.

If you pre-partition the OS partition, the partition probably won't be aligned, and should be tended to...
 
To align the drive just use free app from creators of CCleaner , called

Defraggler ,, by pin form... google it in and run it and you will have all your data in the outer part of the platters and the inside will be emtpy free space. Also you can use this

Ultimate Defrag ,,,
defrag.jpg
 
htwingnut said:
So best to just install the OS on the full volume then resize the partition afterwards then?
Click to expand...

That is probably the easiest way, if you don't have access to Paragon's alignment tool.

Tweakboy, is Defraggler an alignment tool? I did a short Google, and it looks to me like it's just a defrag tool.
 
I did download the Paragon alignment tool thanks. But I think I will just create the OS on the full volume, then shrink it once I get Windows 7 installed. Simple enough to do. Will run the Paragon alignment tool just to ensure everything is good though.
 
tweakboy said:
To align the drive just use free app from creators of CCleaner , called

Defraggler ,, by pin form... google it in and run it and you will have all your data in the outer part of the platters and the inside will be emtpy free space. Also you can use this

Ultimate Defrag ,,, *image removed*
Click to expand...

This has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with alignment. And this program is absolutely useless for anyone with windows 7 (since windows 7 has an excellent built in defrag utility)
 
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