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My HDD is starting to die, Need Help picking new drive

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Hello as the title says my HDD is starting to die, through the way of corruption. It is a Hitachi DeskStar 7K2000, and I've had it for about 2 & 1/4 Years. It is a 2tb drive and I've used about 1.25 tbs of it. Now that its starting to go on its way out, I was thinking of getting an SSD for my next storage availability. I've been thinking of the Samsun 850 EVO in the same 2TB form but its a bit pricey. I was wondering I there was something that performed like it for a little less, or an overall SSD that is better, or if I should downgrade to 1tb and get a HDD for an extra 1tb of storage for things that aren't like games and such?

 

Another questions is their anyway to get the free win10 upgrade to transfer to the new SSD or would I have to use my old win8.1 disk or buy a win 10 license?

 

Thanks for any input!

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I would get a 250gb-500gb ssd for daily programs, and then get another 2tb HDD for bulk storage. You wouldnt notice the increased speed of an SSD on most files, making it a terrible value. have you looked into RMAing your old drive? Many hard drives have a 3 year warranty. 

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Windows 10 is tied to your account if you used one. I would go for a 500GB SSD and a 1 or 2TB HDD for mass strorage.

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15 minutes ago, bgibbz said:

I would get a 250gb-500gb ssd for daily programs, and then get another 2tb HDD for bulk storage. You wouldnt notice the increased speed of an SSD on most files, making it a terrible value. have you looked into RMAing your old drive? Many hard drives have a 3 year warranty. 

Yea I agree.

Whether your music/pictures/movie collection, or massive video games are installed on your SSD or your HDD make little difference.

 

I was dissapointed myself when I found that lots of games don't actually load that much faster on an SSD than they do on a HDD.

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I tried to find the warranty on the hard drive but it was from hitachi and said to go to point of purchase which was newegg, and I didn't purchase any available extra warranty so I got the 2 year standard but I exceeded that by 3 months. 

 

I went for 1tb SSD and then a 1tb HDD because I got a deal on the SSD

 

How would I put the Win 10 on the new drive since I did use an account? @ARikozuM

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