Buying new HD

[carling220]

Hi there

In the windows 7 system review panel, I get good grades apart from my HD, which is only 5.9. It's a 1TB hard drive and with games been so big these days I was considering upgrading.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to a good quality, higher speed and reasonable cost replacement? I think 2 TB in size is required. My current HD is a hitatchi HDS721010CLA332 ATA device manager tells me.

Will an increase in speed for a HD be a noticeable thing?

Are there are compatability/fitment issues I should be aware of with HD's? I'm a relative hardware noob in truth.

I'm planning on keeping my steam games so will hopefully either transfer to this HD or to an old external one I have.

Any information appreciated. I understand that the internet is very useful i'm not being lazy, it's just with PC components moving along so quickly reviews are often out of date!

 

[dawp]

about the only way to increase that score is to get an SSD. another HDD wont increase it that much, not even a WD velociraptor.

 

[tweakboy]

about the only way to increase that score is to get an SSD. another HDD wont increase it that much, not even a WD velociraptor.

True, Your going to get the same 5.9 score with the 2TB .....

Also Hitachi is crummy hard drives,, get a WDC or a Sammy.... dont get a maxtor or seagate, you want to avoid them. Seagate was good until maxtor hopped in bed with seagate......