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Replacing old plated hard drives
Pros: If you need to keep a older laptop or computer to save money, Refurbish it !! It is amazing how much faster a computer can be if you replace the old plated hard drive with a SSD drive !! And Western Digital has made it vary easy to clone the old drive.
Cons: Opening up your computer or laptop might not be for everyone.
Overall Review: Don't knock it until you try it!
NAS in my house
Pros: cost, after my first choice order was cancelled by synology nas.
Cons: Direction to set it up is pitiful !!
Overall Review: I went online and watched their video which was not great. Downloaded their software to setup/ format the 4 - 4terabyte drives I had in it, when I ran the software it formatted not only the hard drives in the qnap, as well as my spare hard drive in my computer !! I was and am p. o. !! I now need to rebuild all of my data from backups, on other drives and discs, I am not happy. this will take me a lot of time. I do not recommend it until they improve the documentation and software directions.
SSD, replace your old plated drives
Pros: The new SSD drives are far faster than the old plated drives! and if you are trying to get more speed out of an older computer or laptop, replacing the old drive with an SSD drive is a no brainer !
Cons: If you are not good at cloning, & replacing a drive, get some help from a pro!
Overall Review: I have never had a Samsung SSD drive fail, and Samsung has great cloning software.
Video card upgrade
Pros: I am running a Dell OptiPlex 990 small form factor PC. I have chosen to upgrade my video card. I needed a low profile, it is low profile ready. I needed HDMI, it has. I wanted more on card memory, it has 4GB of GDDR6
Cons: The video card has 2 fans, if noise is an issue. For me noise is not a problem. The GTX 1650 does block my second pci slot.
Overall Review: The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1650 DirectX 12 GV-N1656OC-4GL 4GB 128-Bit GDDR6 PCI Express 3.0 x16 Low Profile Ready Video Card was a great investment for my system at a great price !!
NAS storage unit
Pros: I bought this for my NAS unit, I highly recommend it and I will be buying it again!
Overall Review: I will buy it again.
Replace those old drives
Pros: Fast, and easy to clone those old drives.
Cons: the price, but they are coming down.
Overall Review: I do not regret doing it, Replace those old drives. You'll not regret it ether !!!!!
Replacing old plated hard drives
These are great for replacing an old plated 3.5" hard drive with a small 2.5" SSD drive for speed !
Upgrading instead of replacing !!
Right now with the Democratic Party Destroying our economy and killing Jobs, it makes more sense to upgrade instead of replacing.
Replacing old plated hard drives
By Replacing old plated hard drives, with SSD drives you can give new life to an old computer.