Seeking new hard drive

Best of the day to you all.
I have a dell optiplex 745
whose earliest program install date is 2006, so I am assuming this comp is 14 years old

I would like to put a brand new medium speed hard drive in it, in another post i have been kindly

shown how to pull the "image" with a program, that home work behind me, I need to know

can i get a brand new hard drive, and what are the longest lasting.
I have been sold used junk as brand new 3 times, want to ovoid that



PS I do not, (despite their hi speed) want a solid state drive.

The Western Digital Black models are what I recommend.

HERE are 500 GB(465 GB actual capacity) and 1 TB(931 GB actual capacity) models.

Before we can tell you we need to know what type of drive you have ide or data?

If I remember correctly, the Dell OptiPlex 745 models use SATA2 hard disk drives.

samuria said:

Before we can tell you we need to know what type of drive you have ide or data?

Thank you

for your arrow splitting ZEN archery on this, Sam, I don't know how to find that info
how do i obtain it accurately, as i don't wanna get something in the mail that doesn't fit.
is there a way to find that with out opening up the machine guts.

strollin said:

Out of curiosity, why are you dead set against SSD? Their only drawback is that they are costlier but their price has dropped to the point where they are very competitive. A 500GB Samsung 860 SSD can be purchased for less than the 500GB WD Black drives suggested above.

Thank you for a great avatar "Strollin"

I am part of the greatest generation too.
tho they (solid state) are faster then fat Freddy's cat to the tuna bowl, they have a break down rate that scares me.
But some folks get lucky and never have a problem, but many do.
Tho i don't yet know how to do it, back yours up.