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" Well after looking up specs on it idk lol 150mb/s compared to 6gb/s"

for the Sata standerds they come in sata1 @ 1.5gb/s Sata II @3.0gbs/s and sata III @ 6.0gb/s.

This applies to the max bandwidth of the interface not to the speed of the drive. for SSDs it will make a difference because the flash storage is so fast. Most ssd's will max out the Sata III interface and run 550+mb/s = 5.5gb/s

with Harddrives most only run at about 100-120mb/s read and 80mb/s write. Only 4tb 7200rpm drives will come closs the 150mb/s.

So in conclusion your old hard drive with a sata I port will be the same speed as a harddrive with a sata III port.

 

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Oh ok thank you for this. So with it already having windows 7 on it I won't need to resintall will it? Or would I want to format and reinstall anyways?

 This is what it would be going into. http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Damrau/saved/25Gb

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I would recommend reformating, but you dont have to. If you can boot into safe mode and delete all the drivers you will be fine.

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Well reformating is no issue. Nothing important on the drive. Now to decide if I want to pay for shipping of use the free one.