Is it worth upgrading my computers internal hard drive?

Liliana Av

I've had this computer since I was 13 and I'm turning 17 by the end of this year.

When I bought it, it was considered top of it's line, 500GB storage, 500MB graphics card and 4GB ram. However, as the years have passed, between games, music, programs and videos, it only has roughly less than 100GBs left (And this is WITH a portable 500GB HDD I use to keep videos on).

Originally, I was planning to get a new, faster and larger computer by the end of High School for University, which would've been next year. However, due to medical and personal reasons, I've decided to hold off University until 2013 - 2014 and I'm unsure if it's worth getting another say, 500GBs or so between now and then.

Any suggestions?
Money isn't an issue, and I know the place where I am most likely to buy the HDD from also installs them for an extra $10.

Also, what would this do for the speed of my computer? I mean, would it effect it at all?

I had my graphics card upgraded last year to a 1GB because the old one burnt out or something, the computer handles it just fine though.

Answer
Adding another internal drive should work fine if you are running short of drive space. My PC (about 3 years old) came with a 250 GB primary drive and I installed a second 1 TB drive as additional space. Most motherboards support a minimum of two drives and many support 4 or more. Given the PC is about 4 years old, it probably uses SATA drives and probably has 4 SATA connectors. As one of the other responses indicated, a 1 TB drive is less than $100 so adding it as a secondary internal drive would make a lot of sense if you are running low on space.

Installing the drive is fairly simple. New retail drives usually include a step by step guide to installation and setup for systems running Microsoft Windows operating system. If the drive doesn't include this, there are plenty of online resources to walk you through the process. While $10 is pretty cheap, it doesn't make sense to pay for such a simple task.

As for the speed of the computer, it won't have a big impact. Defragmenting the drive could help performance (although I've seen debates both for and against this), but for most systems the video card selection is the primary bottleneck for performance.

I have lost my wd smartware installation files from drive?

Nitin

My product is WD My Passport 1tb usb 3.0 Portable Ext. Hard Drive (Black).

Product Model No. WDBBEP0010BBK. Sept-2013 version 1.6.4

I have lost the installation files and have searched their website for a possible online installation files but I Cannot found the same for version 1.6.4 Kindly suggest me?
I have 2 another Laptop and PC, I just want to install backup and utility,security software to another PC

Answer
If you're on Windows 7, 8 or Mac OS X, just use the built-in Windows Backup (Or Time Machine on a Mac). They work much better than WD SmartWare.
If you're on an older version of Windows, or just really want SmartWare, you can download it here:
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?level1=2&lang=en
Just choose whatever Passport model you have, and it'll give you download links for drivers and the WD SmartWare software.

After installing, the program should keep itself up to date.

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