Storage
When considering a change in hard drive you need to consider how much much more storage place you would actually need, its reasonable to want an upgrade if your hard drive is getting low on space, but how much more space would you need, and is the space being taken up really needed, if you want data to be kept an external hard drive to hold a copy of your current hard drive would be efficient and then formatting the drive within your computer and re-installing windows would be sufficient. Although you not want the hassle of having to plug in the hard drive so that you can access data, you may want everything accessible without external device. The best option I think would to be install a brand new hard drive but keep the existing one there, to set up a master and slave unit within in the computer.
Definition of master and slave drives
640Gb hard drive= 2x320Gb hard drives
This will be achieved through having one set as the master drive and the other as a slave. The master drive will be in use at most times, although if the computer need to access data from the slave drive a message will be sent to see if the master drive is use as the slave drive cannot be read if the master drive is in use
A typical hard drive spec would be-
500GB SATA Hard Drive
7200rpm
500GB-amount of storage space
7200 RPM- Repetitions per minute
SATA is the type of connector that is used to connect the hard drive to the motherboard, there are two types of connection for hard drives SATA and IDE. This is something that has to be considered when upgrading a hard drive. If the motherboard does not have a port for a SATA connection then you must ensure that your hard drive is IDE, as that is the only way you are going to be able to connect it to your motherboard,although if you have your heart set on a SATA hard drive you are going to need
purchase a new motherboard and once means more money.The main thing that need to be considered is all that data that is filling up hard drive really necessary and could maybe solve this storage problem by just deleting some unneeded data.
Processor
The processor or CPU (central processing unit) is essentially what makes your machine work. It is the brain of the computer it run the software and also processes all the data that you are
working on or having running.There are many different kinds of processors available on the market, an you will obviously want to save yourself money, so there would be no need to go all out and buy the latest and fastest chip from Pentium, before thinking whether you really need it or not. Nowadays there, are single core,dual core, and quad core. The two main companies in the processor world are Intel and AMD. Again when upgrading your processor you need to consider your motherboard, if it is quite an old machine that you have a new processor chip may not work on
working on or having running.There are many different kinds of processors available on the market, an you will obviously want to save yourself money, so there would be no need to go all out and buy the latest and fastest chip from Pentium, before thinking whether you really need it or not. Nowadays there, are single core,dual core, and quad core. The two main companies in the processor world are Intel and AMD. Again when upgrading your processor you need to consider your motherboard, if it is quite an old machine that you have a new processor chip may not work on
Single core-1 chip
Dual Core-2 processors 1 chip
Quad Core-4 processors 1 chip
RAM
Upgrading memory is something that you may consider if you want your computer to run a little bit faster, but again with RAM you could have the problem with slots in your motherboard, not that the RAM chips won't fit in the slot, but that you may not have a suitable amount of slots for the amount you want to upgrade.
The main thing I think you need to consider when beginning to upgrade a PC, is how much upgrading you actually need to do, if you feel you need more RAM, a bigger hard drive, faster processor and maybe even a new motherboard, the best option may just be to bin your PC and buy a new one, upgrading your pc can add up to quite alot of money and nowadays you pick up relatively fast PC's for around £200-£300, again depending on what you actually want a £200-£300 pc may not be sufficient for you.
Considering making your own pc may also be an option, you pick all the components that you want an then get it build by someone or build it yourself if you have sufficient knowledge of building PC's
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