I think I’m going to clone the current HDD to a SSD and use it for the main drive. I will then leave the current HDD installed as an internal 2nd drive with its content as is. I am not sure what size the current drive is but it has over 1tb free. I may end up getting a 3rd HDD and install in one of those external cases to use to do automatic backups of some sort
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 11, 2019, at 4:17 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > You can get an external case too for a HDD and if you need to back up the one > you have now, you can get another HDD and put it in there for backup, or put > your existing HDD in there and use another machine to back it up to something > else (SSD in another external case?). Those cases are cheap on Newegg, and > are useful if you need to do something quick because your machine has died > and you need to get at stuff on the HDD. > > --FT > >> On 6/11/19 4:33 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >> I’m thinking I want to get a 1tb SSD to use as the primary drive but I am >> not sure about the interface these days. My current HDD is SATA, but I see >> SSD and HDD listed with SATA II and III. Is thing something new my >> motherboard might not support? I have not done anything with computer >> building in a long time. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Jun 11, 2019, at 3:24 PM, Kaleb Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> wrote: >>> >>> I have suspected my power supply has been on the way out for a while. It >>> normally runs all the time and if it does get shut off sometimes it takes a >>> while to get it power back on. The fan in the power supply has died as has >>> the separate fan in the back of the case I added. Lately I have been >>> getting blue screen crashes every now and then. I really am not sure how >>> old this system is I built it myself. It’s running windows 7 and has a AMD >>> Phenom 2.7 ghz professor and 8gb ram. Other than the power supply issue it >>> seems to be running fine and is plenty past for anything I do on it. So I >>> can replace the power supply which I will do ASAP but this hard drive is >>> not backed up which is not good. I think I should get a new replacement and >>> clone the drive over to a new one, perhaps a SSD. It’s this or just buy a >>> whole new tower either a prebuilt one or build another one, or replace the >>> motherboard too. Actually upon boot up I see the bios is dated 2011, so it >>> is at least that old. >>> >>> I think what I will do is order a new power supply and HDD. If something >>> later on fails such as the motherboard I can upgrade it then. That is >>> unless you people thing I should just do it now. Have there been that many >>> advancements in motherboards and processors in the last 8 or so years? >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > -- > --FT > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
