Should I upgrade my hard drive?

[roman1654]

Hello everyone, I’m completely new to the topic of hard drives and I can’t figure out whether I should upgrade my HDD to a new SSD in my laptop.

I installed a couple of programs to check the hard drive such as Crystalldiskinfo, Victoria. I attach screenshots of the scanning results:

HDD and Laptop names:
Laptop: ASUS Gl753VE-GC082T
HDD: Seagate Mobile ST1000LM035-1RK172

https://imgur.com/pZoy3mF

https://imgur.com/pX2eN3v

https://imgur.com/ibLWdG6

P.S Sorry, I tried to upload screenshots through the forum but the sizes were not suitable.

[fzabkar]

It's time to replace it.

https://www.cheadledatarecovery.co.uk/2018/02/st2000lm007-st1000lm035-worst-hdd-ever/

[pepe]

if i was to say my opinion, i like them

[MISU]

It's time to replace it.

https://www.cheadledatarecovery.co.uk/2018/02/st2000lm007-st1000lm035-worst-hdd-ever/

I agree 100 % with you. Quality has started degrading from F3 launch - 7200.11 /12 & now with Rosewood & SMR it has worsened .

[roman1654]

Thank you all for the feedback. Now I've definitely decided that I should upgrade my hard drive to a ssd drive.

Now I have a question, I found 2 ssd's that I am interested in. One is the Crucial T500 SSD 2TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 CT2000T500SSD8, the form factor is nvme, meaning I don't have to throw away my current hard drive from my laptop but just add on and use the old drive as trash space without fear of losing important data. The second option is the Samsung 870 EVO SATA III 2.5 inch MZ-77E2T0B/EU SSD, 2 TB to buy a 2.5 form factor SSD that would replace my current hard drive.

They are the same price, the first one will obviously be faster in terms of reading and writing files, the second one is interesting in terms of just replacing my old hard drive with an SSD.

Which drive is the right choice? Will the Samsung drive fit the laptop (I mean form factor, because I looked at the specs and the hard drive I have now matches the form factor of the Samsung drive).

If anyone has other options, I would be glad to hear back).