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my 3TB hard drive (my last hdd in my pc) is.... acting weird. in the middle of watching a movie or transferring a file it stops doing anything, doesn't make a sound, even though task manager says its at 100% usages

i don't really care if its broken, or just very fragmented and slow from being at 90% capacity, but its just not workable anymore

ideally i would like to just swap the HDD tray with a SATA SSD, put the HDD in an external enclosure and transfer over some stuff i actively use and then use it as an external backup. its not my boot drive, just games and movies and dropbox on there

  1. anyone have good tips for SATA SSD >3TB that i won't hate to use (fast enough, reliable)
  2. i've never done a drive swap before, can i just take out the old one, put in the new one, assign that the same drive letter as the old one, and programs like dropbox and steam won't freak out that their folders are missing? what's the Process?

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in reply to @gabu's post:

Yeah, you can just swap the drives. Programs with Storage will redownload their stuff. Unless you chose to install them on the drive but in that case just reinstall them. It's no rocket surgery

Since it's not your boot drive, you can probably just copy files over normally even. But it might be nicer to do a "drive clone", which copies over everything exactly (including stuff like permissions). You may want to also do it "offline" by booting into a USB drive, that way none of your normal programs are running and able to be confused by things being missing. Or just ensure you quit Steam/Dropbox before swapping the disk labels.