Which program to clone hard drive? Ha Habitualdiana
Used hard drive in other laptop? ni nicoFisher
NAS storage has no storage space? Ar ArcherCannon
I bought a used gaming laptop about a year ago.
Everything worked without any problems, but for some time the loading times have been getting longer and the de / installing of programs took longer and longer. It got so extreme that it became unusable. Unfortunately, formatting, uninstalling and reinstalling did not help either. The completely new setup was also unsuccessful.
Then I installed 2 programs on the SSD (previously only operating system) for testing. These are now running again without any problems.
Lately, it has also been taking longer to start up and often it also runs a disk check or hangs when starting.
Because of this I assume (not a computer genius) that the HDD is the problem. Now the question is whether there are other options or whether I should swap them and if so, which ones? It should be a usable HDD at an affordable price, as an after-work gamer it doesn't have to be the best.
Medion Erazer X7833
Intel core i7-4710MQ 2.5 GHz
16 GB Ram
SSD Samsung MZ7LF128HCHP-00000. 128GB
HDD HGST HTS 721010A9E630. 1TB
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M
Neija, https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/hgst/travelstar-7k-series/data-sheet-travelstar-7k1000.pdf has 7200rpm and a cache of 32MB
Whether you can really find something faster on HDD for a notebook. I hardly think so. Can you swap it for an SSD?!
You can see whether the hard drive is broken with Crsystal Disk Info, but according to your description I assume that it is broken. Especially because it's a HGST…
https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/
Since SSD storage is now extremely cheap, it is hardly worth buying a HDD. 1TB HDD is 50 euro and 1TB SSD is 100 euro. On the other hand, SSDs last longer, are faster, quieter and more robust, or walking through falls / vibrations / impacts etc. Is not broken.
So I recommend you to buy a Samsung SSD. A 1TB 860 EVO is sufficient and costs around 110 euro
https://geizhals.de/...56905.html
If you need less storage, you can also use a 500GB 860 EVO or something. (500GB 860 EVO is 60 euro)
https://geizhals.de/...56904.html
There's still the QVO from Samsung. Please keep your hands off that. You save about 10 euro on the EVO but get an SSD that is a little slower and breaks a lot faster. So saving is not worth it at all.
Do I have to pay attention to something when ordering, installing and installing?
e.g. Design, connections, voltage…
Nope, everything is standardized. Just put old ones out and new ones in. After that, you just won't see it. You have to format them first. This is very easy in Windows Disk Management.
