I have a HP pavilion slimline PC model # 5123w Tha hard drive is 320GB SATA 3g (3.0GB/sec) I would like to buy a new one the one in my computer is Shot. What do I buy? how do I buy the right one. I also want A bigger hard drive. I live in St Paul mn What store can I go to. Or where can I buy it online.
Also, it should be 3.5 inch hard drive. Laptops hard drives are 2.5 inch and wont be compatible with your machine. You can go with Seagate Barracuda, Hitachi or Western Digital.
2.5 can be used as well, it's just that you'd need something like this. Anyway, thanks for pointing that out. Get a 3.5 drive, of course. The small ones won't come with SATAII support anyway, I think.
Your hard drive has a number of magnetized platters connected to a spindle. The spindle spins the platters at a very fast speed while a series of read/write heads scan over them both looking for and writing information. This information is transferred via a cable system, or through a wireless connection to a hard disk controller, which in most systems is built into the motherboard, or in some systems installed as an add-in card. The information that comes from your hard drive through its controller is then made available to the components of your computer. The effectiveness of your hard drive (its performance) depends on how much of its capacity remains unused, how well organised the data is (known as fragmentation) and its data transfer rate, which in turn is dependent on its connection type and the drive's spin rate.Hard Disk Manager
