What hard drive brand do you recommend when upgrading? I currently have a Maxtor 80GB HD but looking to upgrade since I've only got like 30GB lefth: Also, how hard is it to change your hard drive to a new one?

 

WD Maxtor or Seagate are all good brands

Adding a hard drive is simple just put the new drive to slave and install it to power and on the ribbon cable.

replacing your C drive is kind of a pain since you have to reload the OS and ghost in all your programs and settings etc.

 

Wait...only have 30 gigs left?? Man come back and talk to me when you are fighting to keep 7 gigs open because you are regularly filling up that much space for work related reasons instead of just porn or MP3s :slap:

 

^Thanks man.

No, no pr0n, just mostly music and programs, adobe, sound forge, and alot of pictures. It's a "family" computer.

 

I that case just go out and get a 160gb WD with 16mb cache and 7200RPM and use it as a secondary drive.

If you have XP and are SP2 or higher than the sky is the limit for size of drive with little to no install issues.

 

I have a maxtor 80Gb in my xbox

 

160gb in my XbX stacked full to the brim. I need to dump some of my games back onto my comp so I can hit the rental store again

 

I still have 20g left h:
I dont use it as much as I used to.

 

Western Digital, Samsung, and Maxtor if you don't care about your data

Seagate if you want reliability and long life and do care about your data.

Hard drive changing is easy, but with you what I'd suggest is simply make your old 80gb a slave drive and put a new 250 or 350gb drive as master and re-install Windows and call it a day.

 

I wouldn't say Maxtor or WD are bad drives at all. I have run them for years and only once have I had an issue with one of them which was a Maxtor laptop drive that fried on me.

Now people who don't know shit about running regular maintenence on their drives might see a few more issue with long seek times or corrupted file. Of course I run a cleanup only once a month or less and do a lot of writing and rewriting to my drives and have a decent amount set aside as scratch disc/virtual memory too.