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
- anyone have good tips for SATA SSD >3TB that i won't hate to use (fast enough, reliable)
- 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?
this morning i thought i remembered i had an extra spot free behind my motherboard (right), but upon inspection i already put both of my SSDs on those spots
i originally didn't install them there because as you can see the metal sheet extends below the SSDs en sata power cables had a 90 degree angle so i needed to get an extender (the yellow/red cable) but i forgot i already did that and moved the SSD there
soooooo that meant i had an extra spot in the tray below the hard drive (bottom left)! i did have to look really hard to find my last sata6 cable....
so no need to remove the hard drive, i just installed the new 4GB SSD alongside it and now i can move over the files :)
