Computor Towers?
Aug 24, 2023 16:06:03 #
Carl1024
Loc: Kaneohe, HI 96744
What brands are good & easy to interchange drives when speed is need?
Aug 24, 2023 16:36:07 #
Carl1024 wrote:
What brands are good & easy to interchange drives when speed is need?
It depends.....
Some are not expandable, some have no extra bays for drives.
The HP I recently purchased stated how many bays were in it: two bays. It came with a 1TB HD in one bay and one open bay, in which I put a 2TB HD (both are SATA).
Best to check the specs. HOPEFULLY they state this. (Not all do.)
Aug 24, 2023 16:43:56 #
Carl1024
Loc: Kaneohe, HI 96744
Do you have a svs person closeby who can svs it 4 you? I had a regular big HD in mine but changed to a solid state version, what a difference in speed?
Aug 24, 2023 17:01:33 #
My experience leads me to believe should have somebody custom build for you. Might cost a little more, but you get exactly what you want.
Aug 24, 2023 17:21:57 #
Carl1024
Loc: Kaneohe, HI 96744
do you have a tower or buy a used 1 & start from there? i did & now everything is flying w/good speed. I don't game so i bought a Lenovo ThinkCentre i5 & love it
Aug 24, 2023 17:25:15 #
Carl1024 wrote:
Do you have a svs person closeby who can svs it 4 you? I had a regular big HD in mine but changed to a solid state version, what a difference in speed?
What in the world is an "svs"?
Aug 24, 2023 17:27:13 #
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Aug 24, 2023 17:32:59 #
Carl1024
Loc: Kaneohe, HI 96744
As i said, just get a good case & start from there. If 2 slow, have the hard drive changed to SS?
Aug 24, 2023 18:02:57 #
alvin3232
Loc: Houston, TX
Hello
A good place to look would be on Google for computer cases or parts. You can pick your parts and brand.
1. Intel i5 or i7
2. AMD
3. Mother's boards are plenty to choose from.
Here Is just one site to look at or as I noted search on Google or Amazon for what you want.
https://www.microcenter.com/category/4294966995/processors-cpus
Al
A good place to look would be on Google for computer cases or parts. You can pick your parts and brand.
1. Intel i5 or i7
2. AMD
3. Mother's boards are plenty to choose from.
Here Is just one site to look at or as I noted search on Google or Amazon for what you want.
https://www.microcenter.com/category/4294966995/processors-cpus
Al
Aug 24, 2023 18:05:37 #
Go to one of the computer builders website, where they give tons of options for you to Tailor your computer requirements and needs to your specifications and $$$$.
AVA Direct, PC builders, Origin PC, Cyber Power, Main Gear, to name a few . You will get a much better product for the money, one that is not proprietary where you swap parts later on for better, or more updated ones. With your HP, apple's, etc. You don't have as much options, if any, and way more expensive. When I got tired of keeping up with the technology building myself my own towers, I went the online builder's route. I just pick what I want from the list of compatible parts, and that's it.
AVA Direct, PC builders, Origin PC, Cyber Power, Main Gear, to name a few . You will get a much better product for the money, one that is not proprietary where you swap parts later on for better, or more updated ones. With your HP, apple's, etc. You don't have as much options, if any, and way more expensive. When I got tired of keeping up with the technology building myself my own towers, I went the online builder's route. I just pick what I want from the list of compatible parts, and that's it.
Aug 25, 2023 00:38:55 #
I especially like Cooler Master towers - they have models from $60 to $400, depending on your needs. BTW, they make excellent CPU coolers as well.
Aug 25, 2023 09:33:59 #
Most, but not all. I mistakenly bought this Dell tower not knowing that I could not add optical drives. I can add HDD or SSD, though, and I did. You just have to read the description carefully. To be certain, contact the seller. If it has any drive at all, you can replace it with a larger, faster drive. The thing is, you want to be able to have at least two drives - OS and data.
Aug 25, 2023 10:06:21 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Most, but not all. I mistakenly bought this Dell tower not knowing that I could not add optical drives. I can add HDD or SSD, though, and I did. You just have to read the description carefully. To be certain, contact the seller. If it has any drive at all, you can replace it with a larger, faster drive. The thing is, you want to be able to have at least two drives - OS and data.
Curious - do you move your "user" data, like documents, to the data drive or leave it on the system drive and place all other data on the data drive. ie. C:\users\<username>\Documents
Windows expects a user folder on C: by default.
Aug 25, 2023 10:35:28 #
Harry02
Loc: Gardena, CA
Carl1024 wrote:
What brands are good & easy to interchange drives when speed is need?
I'd recommend a cMacpro. Dual Xeons, big ram capacity, four basic bay slides. The OG sleds for the drive bays are drying up. but there are folk out there printing replacements. The bracket holding the optical drive has two sata connections- I put my booter SSD in there. Yeah they're Macs- they run Windows very nicely!
I had also picked up another Dell server tower- same reason. Open door, pop in drive, runs.
I do lowball3rd party work for consumers- ram and CPU upgrades, and these days a lot of SSD upgrades.
New PCs? "Set and forget". Capacity? Two drives, low ram, mobo graphics. Made for emailers and TikTokers.
Look fo server type towers not just "stood on end" desktops.
Or just get en external enclosure. Drives in and out and not touch your unit.
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