My Hardrive just pooped out what about this upgrade?

Hey everyone,

A few months back I bought a refurbished HP ENVY M7 series. It has treated me pretty great however my hard drive crapped out..

First any recommendations on getting important photos off there? ( I know always always back up..and I did I was in a 3rd world country and the pc was my ultimate back up and the memory cards were stolen so my back up back up failed ha ha what did I do to deserve thisss noooooo!!)

Anyways

I am looking at getting the HGST Travelstar 2.5 inch 1 tb 7200 rpm which is for sale for like 50.00 right now...However I know it is a little older and wondering if its worth it or better to upgrade to something else? Suggestions?

Also I will be getting an ssd for my os and photo editor and whatnot I am looking at the Crucial m500 which is on sale for about 70 I was going to get the 840 Evo but I read the horror stories of TLC...So I think I will get the m500 240GB unless someone has suggestions?

I am us based, I use my pc for light gaming movie watching and heavy photo editing movie editing writing.

 

Does the HDD allow the system to boot at all? What exactly are the symptoms that it shows?

The Hitachi Travelstar is a great drive. Recommended.

As for the SSD, I would be looking at a much larger capacity model (don't forget to OP your drive) and for your usage model; The SanDisk Extreme Pro instead of the entry level models you're looking at.

 

I've got 3 of the hitatchi 1tb drives - one as the main drive in my sager, one as a storage drive in my old gateway, and one that has been used as a clone backup and as an external drive. Not a single problem with any of them

 

It boots sometimes other times no...sometimes i can access files other times not....

Glad to hear on the hitachi i ordered it

 

Unless you have a second drive bay in your computer also get a USB (preferably USB 3.0) enclosure. You can then put the old HDD into it and see if anything is readable.

If you are lucky then it's some of the boot sectors that are damaged but you can read the rest of the drive and find your data. Otherwsie there are specialist companies who can recover data from the drive platters but they aren't cheap.

John

 

I have 4: 2 backup drives. 1 system storage drive, 1 portable enclosure. And they all purr like kittens.

 

If the data is important; immediately remove the drive and do not power it up again until:

You have either purchased an external enclosure, installed it in there and then are 100% ready to start copying any files you can from it to another HDD.

Or, have purchased or borrowed a HDD docking station similar to:

See:
ThermalTake BlacX 5G SATA HDD Docking Station, USB 3.0 at Memory Express


Have the computer that you hook up the external enclosure or HDD dock be ready to accept the data from the damaged drive. Do not try to copy directly to a USB stick or other USB drive; copy directly to internal HDD/SSD of the host computer.

Keep in mind that you may only get one chance to do this; if/when it does spin up and you can connect to the drive, do not turn it off until you have all the data you can from it.

Good luck.

 

I definitely think the HGST travelstar is a fantastic HDD. Much much better than I expected.

 

Yup same here... It blows my old WD 500GB 7200rpm drive and having so much storage makes me feel godly to say the least... Really satisfied with it.. Best £50 I ever spent... Although, I'd say I also hold my Sandisk Extreme II in similar fashion.. Best £100 I spent on any computer...