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Dell Alienware 17 R2 Hard Drive
Replacing your main hdd is an easy job if you know the steps to take, obviously. Your computer has a hdd, or hard disk drive, which houses your pictures and all the other data that the computer needs. Hard drives can be touchy and they will fail you whenever they want for any number of reasons! HDDs can come in varying sizes and types. The hard drive type to purchase all depends on the connection inside your Dell laptop. The size of the drive is simply a personal choice as most computers will be able to handle any capacity size.
General indicators that your that your main hard drive will die soon
- On some older computers you may occasionally hear a tick, tick, tick sound resonating from the computer
- The system may get stuck trying to load and may never boot all the way
- The computer crashes randomly while in use
- Your laptop hesitates or does weird stuff off and on through the day
- Your Dell shuts down when you view a particular file
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