Choosing a new desktop hard secondary drive

Hi smalltown

I have a bunch of drives and the 7200 rpm will not cause you any issues in terms of longevity. The SATA 2 port also won't be an issue.

FWIW, I agree with @Caledon Ken. I've got several older WD drives of 750 GB still kicking, and still showing good SMART values, that are nearly 10 years old. Lots of older Samsung Spinpoints, too (of which I am also quite fond).
HTH,
--Ed--

[PS added 2 mins later] The BackBlaze Hard Drive Stats are a good source for data-driven, objective failure rate info: the most recent report is from Q3 2018: Backblaze Drive Stats: 2018 Hard Drive Failure Rates. It still shows the HGST drives leading the pack in terms of overall reliability. When buying big drives now, I tend to lean in that direction because of that data myself. For smaller drives -- and I'd include 1 TB in this category now -- you can pretty much suit yourself.

The 7200rpm spin speed gives the drive better read/write performance without altering the life of the drive. I personally always choose 7200rpm drives for my personal machines.

SATA 3 is backward compatible with SATA 2 but the drive will be limited to SATA 2 performance.

smalltown said:

I am running a SSD drive for my operating system, and my 320 GB 5400 RPM secondary drive is getting quite full.
I am a big fan of Western Digital drives, and when I saw this add yesterday for a Western Blue 1TB 7200 RPM drive at a good price, I thought this might be a good time to get some more storage. With an E-mailed code I can get it for $43, and shipped free
Am I crazy thinking the drive running at 7200 RPM will not last as long as a 5400 RPM drive ?

My motherboard SATA ports are only SATA 2, but this new hard drive is SATA 3 I think it's backward compatible as I slowly creep toward a new motherboard ?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...0A&ignorebbr=1

You could also purchase a low-cost SATA controller card and run it a full SATA 3 speeds.
I like this one and use it with 2 eSATA III for my back up drives 2 internal SATA III Ports Amazon.com: IO Crest 4-port SATA III PCIe 2.0 x2 Controller Card Green, SI-PEX40072: Computers Accessories

ignatzatsonic Interesting never thought I could select my old hard drive then click on one file, and select all to move all the files (the whole drive) over in one fell swoop.
Yes I need to get familiar with Macrium so I can do images. Don't tell anybody I haven't

Clintlgm another interesting thing I never even gave a thought toward thanks. I would be able to upgrade my OS SSD to Sat III, and really speed things up hopefully.

I wanted to correct my own mistakes about my SATA ports.
My SATA ports are in fact SATA11 ports. I kept reading my manual over and over looking at the Storage Interface section and seeing SATA 3 when in fact it's SATA11 capable of 3Gb/s. I guess that I wanted to see SATA111 so that's what I saw.

It was resolved as I tried to understand why my older SSD with a SATA111 interface was being reported as running at SATA11. It looks like no LGA 775 was capable of supporting the SATA111 ports no matter how much I wanted it too.

Sorry for my own confusion I have already slapped myself in the forehead !

P.S. I did chase the idea of installing an adapter card to add some SATA111 ports, and connect my OS SSD, and my new storage drive, but it appears my system would not boot to the adapter card. So a new motherboard in my future is the only way this guy is going to get SATA111.