replace 3.5" sata drive with 2.5"?

tomdempsey200

had a 3.5 " sata drive fail

can i replace with a 2.5" drive i have handy?

are they compatible?

thanks

invaderzimirl

yes they are is only the two connectors and they are even in the same spacing

tomdempsey200

great thanks

both my samsung 1TB drives have failed about a year apart

they make like a clicking sound and boot failure


do i just bin them?

invaderzimirl

the clicking could be the heads damaged, if its connected and can be see you can use CrystalDiskInfo to look at the health of your disks. is ther any data you would like to try recover on the disks ?

tomdempsey200

no critical data really

i will try the utility when i get the pc running again

thanks

tuxy

If you have them less than 24 months they are still in warranty.

invaderzimirl

another one that is good for working with drive is Gparted

tomdempsey200

think they're a few years old but i'll check

once they fail

i assume there's no way of repairing them?
thanks

tomdempsey200

4 years old

Torqay

They're compatible alright (most 2.5" SSD now come with 3.5" mounting kits) but don't expect much of a performance, regular laptops HDDs have a much lower data transfer rate, less cache memory, slower access times, etc.

tomdempsey200

thanks

i have the boot partition imaged with acronis onto a sata drive

if i wanted to purchase a SSD

is it simply a matter of banging it in and restoring the boot image

Torqay

tomdempsey200 wrote: »

if i wanted to purchase a SSD

is it simply a matter of banging it in and restoring the boot image

Yes and no.

It sure will work but there are some differences between HDDs and SSDs. For the sake of proper partition alignment, I prefer a fresh installation. Also, with a fresh installation Windows 7 & 8 automatically apply certain SSD-specific settings, such as TRIM and no background defragmenting. Sure, you can apply those setting manually with your cloned installation.

tomdempsey200

ok thanks

so i need a sata SSD and presumably an adapter for the drive bay?

computers about 6 years old

i presume the new sata speeds are backwards compatible with my system ..yes?

Torqay

tomdempsey200 wrote: »

i presume the new sata speeds are backwards compatible with my system ..yes?

Yes they are.

Your system probably has a a SATA 2 controller (300 mbps), if you want to enjoy the full transfer rate for modern SSDs, you can always add a PCI SATA 3 controller.

tomdempsey200

ok i got it


thanks for all the help

ressem

Just back up beforehand.

Some 6 year old PCs have ACPI implementations (Intel ICH9 for example) that disagree with SSDs, causing IO errors.

It might be worth connecting the SSD as a secondary drive, carrying out large transfers and checking the Windows Event Log \ System Log for errors.

If you see them, or you find your new install of windows stalling for a few seconds when just doing simple drive accesses, then it might be worth changing from "AHCI on" to "Legacy" mode in the system BIOS menu.

(Though if using motherboard RAID then don't touch this.)

invaderzimirl

well if you have an image sys prep it and anysystem will take it :-)