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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
I have a WD as an external. They must make drives that work better when they aren't used much I guess. I bought it in like, 2008... Still working very well for me, and I usually have it sitting in my purse. I think our machines primarily have Hitachi/Samsung brand ones. I'd have to check. I have some that originally came with Windows 98 and are running XP.  . Lots of old Macs that have old drives preinstalled with System 8 too.
3D games run hard drives really hard I do believe. I hear about people's graphics cards and hard drives busting because of WOW and other games. All I know is that my computers have always gone crazy when running them, almost to the point of being unbearable. SSD drives are apparently a step forward in that, but are too expensive at this point.
I like to tinker too, just mostly the stuff inside the machine since I'm horrible taking things apart. I still need to fix my 2006 MacBook Pro as it's sitting there clinging for its life. |
Add me to the list as well. I build my own PCs or use to before this one. The one I have now is a Gateway which I call Lemon.
My last PC I built still runs fine but it's slow single core 2.6ghz compare to my quad core 2.4ghz Funny that Quad core is consider old now.
The only thing original in Lemon now is the motherboard and cpu. I should of went with the Acer my hubby's is old and runs fine.
I own a WD passport I love mine. So portable. I also have a WD Black 1TB I bought for the PC but it's too powerful for my motherboard so I bought this really ugly external case with built in fan and it keeps the thing cool enough for backing up. I have gone through two WD Blue 640MB SATA drives since I got this PC. I have a WD Blue 320GB SATA II in there now and I miss the space!
Sims is really hard on drives due to custom content. The drive has to access 10,000+ files each time the game is loaded. I could never play vanilla.