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Dell Inspiron 3521 Hard Drive
HDDs can come in different physical sizes and connection types. Your Dell Inspiron 3521 contains a hard drive which is responsible for holding your important information and other data for the computer. Replacing a hard drive can be quite easy if you have an idea of what you are doing, obviously. Hard drives can be touchy and they have a unique ability to go out on you at any time for any number of reasons! The hard drive type to buy depends on your computer. The capacity size of the drive is simply a personal preference as just about any computer will be able to handle any capacity size.
General indicators that your that your main HDD is going to die
- The system may get stuck trying to start and may never boot all the way
- The computer may crash suddenly at seemingly random times throughout the day
- Your system freezes or is slow to respond at random times
- On some old hard drives you may occasionally hear a tick, tick, tick sound resonating from the computer
- Your Dell may crash when you open a particular file
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