An SSD will increase your speed a lot, even if your MB will (likely) not support SATA III. IMO the sweet spot in SSD value is probably still 500GB. They say SSD is more reliable now than HDD.
Greg -----Original Message----- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 1:34 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Kaleb Striplin Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT time to do something about by main desktop 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 _______________________________________ 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
