The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Will Switchign Hard drives make a difference?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by sjorge3442, Jul 20, 2009.

  1. sjorge3442

    sjorge3442 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    44
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I wanna switch from my factory hard drive to a 7200 500gb 3.0 gb/s WD hard drive. Will I notice a dramatic difference in the performance of my computer. Also, can I use recovery discs or my factory reformat dvd to make this new drive bootable?

    Thanks
     
    sjorge3442, Jul 20, 2009
    #1
  2. phanpride

    phanpride Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    168
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    well if u do get a new hd there is nothing on the hard drive to begin with, so yes u will have to reformat or format the drive in order for the hd to have an operating system. I am not sure about if upgrading the hard drive will make a difference. I have yet to experience it but from what i have read some say it does make a difference others say it doesn't.
     
    phanpride, Jul 20, 2009
    #2
  3. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

    Reputations:
    6,926
    Messages:
    8,178
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    That depends, in part, on what hard drive you have now, and on whether the SATA handlers on your motherboard can handle the 3.0 speed or are limited to the 1.5 speed - a SATA-compliant device will "downshift" to the slower speed if it detects that the motherboard cannot accept the higher speed.
     
    Shyster1, Jul 20, 2009
    #3