In addition to that, you should keep the HDD (if it's still good - if not, buy a replacement) and use it as a secondary data drive to dump documents and files that don't require faster read/write speeds.
#SHOULD THE HARD DISK LED BE ON INSTALL#
There are tons of options - I would recommend at least 240GB-256GB - this will allow you to install most or all of your programs directly onto the SSD and still have some free space. If you have a lot of programs (or want to keep some games on there for faster loading, etc), you may want to grab a larger SSD - 512GB or 1TB.
#SHOULD THE HARD DISK LED BE ON UPGRADE#
Second: To massively improve performance (whether or not the HDD is still good), you'll want to upgrade to an SSD for your boot drive. There, we can determine if there are any signs of hardware failure. Run it, and post a screenshot of all your SMART stats for us to review. And any ideas on which one i should buy this time? P.S This hard disk is used for an average of 4-5 hours a day (sometimes way Download and install CrystalDiskInfo. When i built it, i put inside a new Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm 1 tb 2012 edition hard disk, never upgraded it since then, its been around 7 years now, it never game me problems but since around a year or two i am facing issues now, hard disk utilization 100% at startup, while playing games like csgo and witcher, leading to occasional lag spikes, higher boot times, higher loading times for apps like premier pro, and games like minecraft and fortnite and all the problems in the world, that should be related to hard disks (occasional crashes and bsods in about 2 months or so, becoming more frequent over time), I have tried reformatting it completely then defragmenting it, seems to help by some extent but still not much of a permenant solution, also creaky and nasty noises come out of that thing now, have already took a backup, ready for drive failure, what should i do, should i wait for it to completely die and then replace it or replace it now, or is this normal behavior expected from this hard disk? Its pretty old and aging now, i read from the internet that the average life of an hard disk is about 4-5 years and i am well beyond that, also the read write speeds have decreased.
I have a gaming pc that i built back in 2013, i have been upgrading it since then, original specs: i5 3330S, gt 710m, 4gb ram, specs now: i7 4700K, 8gb ddr3, gtx 1050ti.
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