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Internal 2.5" SATA Solid State Hard Drives - appreciate Help/Guidance
Internal 2.5 inch SATA Solid State Hard Drives - appreciate some help & guidance
Hi
I'm thinking of swapping the 2.5 inch SATA HD that holds Windows 7,
on my nine year old ASUS N73SV notebook, that has two hard drive bays,
for a 2.5 inch SATA SSD
This SATA SSD would be for Windows 10 and backups.
The other bay HAS TO BE: WD 500GB Black - for storage.
Why 500GB ?
Because I wanted the Storage/Backup hard drive TO BE AT LEAST 2TB - but thatisn't possible anymore, because if you want to play safe you can ONLY USE Western Digital drives that are 500 GB and less because these drives are using
PMR, also known as conventional magnetic recording (CMR), that works by aligning
the poles of the magnetic elements, which represent bits of data, perpendicularly to
the surface of the disk. Magnetic tracks are written side-by-side, without overlapping.
(copied that from elsewhere!)
AND NOT SMR (shingled magnetic recording) that are really bad news.
I got caught out this year, when around January I brought two Blue and two Black - ALL 2TB
Just a few Questions - so I don't cock up!
1)..... Do I have to prepare a 2.5" SATA SSD to use as a Boot Drive/Win 10?
2) . Can you partition a SATA SSD?
.. . If not, does Computer Management play a role in any way?
3) .. Is the File System still NTFS?
4) . I've also read that when the SSD starts to fill up, they become really slow - is this what happens?
Also that when you delete anything it doesn't free up any space, until a certain amount is free 'per sector'
Is that correct?
5) Could you confirm that I would need at least 32 GB
to install Windows 10 Pro?
6) I suppose these SSDs are similar to an Android phone,
and that they give no warning before a problem.
At times, I've found files & folders a tad flaky, and once just disappearing.
7) Finally, any recommendations for a decent 2.5" SATA SSD
to be used for Windows 10?
I HAVE TRIED A NUMBER OF TIMES TO TRY AND SET OUT THIS TEXT
BUT PREVIEW ALWAYS SHOWS IT ALL OVER THE PLACE - SO I HOPE
ABOVE IS LEGIBLE.
Many thanks in advance.
Stephen