Windows 10: Planning on upgrading hard drive from HDD to SSHD, any tips?

Since the holiday season is here, I thought it would be a good idea to spend some money on upgrading my PC. One of the things I'm thinking of upgrading is the hard drive. It's a 7200 RPM 1 TB HDD that I've had ever since I bought my system it came in with.

When it comes to hard drives, I've always preferred disk space over loading times as I'm used to waiting patiently for a PC to boot up or other things taking time to load. As of right now, however, I'm thinking of upgrading the hard drive to something faster since one of the games I'm interested in getting in to requires something faster than an HDD to have at least decent loading times, for multiplayer that is.

I don't think I'll want an SSD because I like to keep some of my games installed (and most of these games take up a lot of disk space) and I don't want to spend no more than $100 (before tax and potentially shipping) for a new drive. So, I decided to go for a compromise with an SSHD. There's a SSHD I found on Newegg that I'm thinking of buying because it's a 2 TB drive for $99.99 which is only about $20 more expensive than the 1 TB option so that's a good deal for me.

Seagate FireCuda Gaming SSHD 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb Internal Hard Drive ST2000DX002 - Newegg.com

Now if the drive I'm planning on buying is a good idea to get, I want to know if there's any tips or suggestions about transferring the content from my old hard drive in to my new one. I have used Macrium Reflect to transfer my C: drive to my laptop's hard drive through a network transfer because of a long and complicated issue that's pretty much said here: Wanting to use unallocated space on my hard drive, any dos and don'ts? - Windows 10 Forums

I assume it's easy to do, although of course there are considerations to deal with when doing it. Just wanting to make sure I know everything what to do and not to do before making the appropriate actions. That is all!

:)

 

upgrade hdd to sshd

Hi,

I am using Dell Latitude E6440 (S/T: 4JD0XZ1) with windows 10. My hard disk seems getting slow; it slows after windows started and after awake from Sleep. It always vibrate and sometime it hang after use long time.

So I want to change my hdd to sshd. Does this model can support SSHD or SSD?

Thanks,

Stay tune.

 

Hard drive/ OS issue

a guy suggested :

• shutdown
• unhooked HDD
• restarted
• yay !!
• reconnected HDD
• restarted
• yay !!

also , try method 3
Fix: 'The Drive Where Windows is Installed is Locked'

 

HDD Corrupt ?

Hi,

There are many possible reasons this issue is happening. We'd like to ask few questions below:

• What is the brand name of you Hard Disk Drive?
  
• How old is the HDD?
  

Since you already tried multiple troubleshooting steps, we suggest visiting the manufacturer's website. Find and download a hard drive diagnostic software to help resolve the issue.

Let us know how it goes.