need new hard drive for £50, quick?

[serlex]

ok guys, my hard drive died, and i need a new one. got £50, and not looking for sata.
i had a look around, and there were good ones in ebuyer.co.uk, i need to order today, so plz help.

[Howard]

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=23275

[serlex]

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=23275

thx howard, i fund this one in microdirect.co.uk
, which is £1 more and 8mb buffer, one more question...
i cant find crossover cable in microdirect.co.uk, is it called something else?

[Howard]

How long do you want it?

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Product...16&GroupID=392 2 Metres

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Product...17&GroupID=392 3 Metres

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Product...18&GroupID=392 5 Metres

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Product...13&GroupID=392 10 Metres

You get the point

[matt_hobson]

Hey,

Yea definately looking at 80 Gigs for that price, here are a few:

80 GB IBM Deskstar 7K250 7200rpm 2Mb cache IDE ATA100 £42.24

80 GB Maxtor 7200rpm IDE ATA133 (6Y080L0) £44.59

80 GB Seagate 7200rpm 2MB cache IDE ATA100 £44.59


Or look under "Hard Drives - IDE" here:

Scan.co.uk


Also Overclockers have a few. They havea Samsung Spinpoint 80Gig for £45.77

[serlex]

thank you guys, great help, im going for the wester national 80gb 8mb

[serlex]

sorry guys, any more suggestions, i got £55 now. thx

[Agent]

id go with http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=43151 personaly. Really good, fast drives.

[Ethos]

Western Digital Caviar 80GB Special Edition 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-000-WD)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatal...gital_ide.html

Price: £42.50 (£49.94 Including VAT at 17.5%)

With p&p it'll come to ~ £55, good reliable hdd.

[Howard]

Another vote for the Maxtor Agent posted. Great drives

[Ethos]

id go with http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=43151 personaly. Really good, fast drives.

Wouldnt touch a maxtor personally, they just arent reliable at all. So many die... the only good thing about maxtor is there rma service. Although personally I think it'd be better if there drives didnt fail so much in the first place

[serlex]

thx again, i found this one in microdirect.co.uk, similar to ethos's
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/product...ProductID=2902
any good?, £53 inc vat and p&p

[Ethos]

Thats the same one as I posted for ~£3 more

Edit : Didn't see that included P&p! Same drive, up to you where you buy it from. I bought a new drive from ocuk and it came next day (I've had very good service from them lately)!

[Allen]

Save a few quid? Same architecture as IBM and Hitachi. Heard they're just as reliable but have no experience.

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=57114

[Theo]

Have to agree with Agent, personally. I've never *touch wood* had a maxtor hdd fail on me yet. Usually quite quiet, nice and zippy, lovely drives, imo. Shame you missed out on the 120GB for 51inc VAT at Tekheds last week

[Agent]

Wouldnt touch a maxtor personally, they just arent reliable at all. So many die... the only good thing about maxtor is there rma service. Although personally I think it'd be better if there drives didnt fail so much in the first place

I disagree. They are the best drives ive ever used.
Seagate coming in a very close second - i only put the maxtor first due to its speed.