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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: Big_Boss on November 10, 2002, 20:55

Title: Buying a new Hard-Drive
Post by: Big_Boss on November 10, 2002, 20:55

Hi,
As the title suggests im looking to buy a new hard-drive as broadband just gobbles up space like theres no tomorrow  :o (no offence to 56'kers but its the truth)
Anyway i was wondering if any of you can recommend any good makes or models. Im looking for a fast drive that has around 80GB of storage and costs under £100.
I saw one in Computer Active that looked quite good. It was a Western Digital 80GB 7200rpm drive (http://www.westerndigital.com/products/Products.asp?DriveID=32 (http://www.westerndigital.com/products/Products.asp?DriveID=32))

Ive already seen this drive on sale at Amazon for aruond £85 i think.
Can anyone recommend any others or has some advice or information. All information greatfully received.

Dave

Title: Re:Buying a new Hard-Drive
Post by: Simon on November 10, 2002, 21:07

Hi Dave,

Check out this one:
http://www1.novatech.co.uk/novatech/Specpage/SEG-BA800

I've heard good reports of these.   :)

Title: Re:Buying a new Hard-Drive
Post by: Big_Boss on November 10, 2002, 21:10

Thanks Simon. That drive looks good aswell. In the end i think ill do eni meni miney mo..  :D

(and i know the spelling is probably atrocious  ;))

Dave

Title: Re:Buying a new Hard-Drive
Post by: bat69 on November 10, 2002, 22:12

Hi Big_boss

I've just got an 80Gb drive for my new machine, I'll get the other soon

For £85 I got the new Maxstor Plus 9, ATA (UDMA) 133 and 7200rpm, this is reputed to be the fastest IDE drive at the moment. If you look around some of the online shops, ie http://www.Arai.co.uk http://www.falconcomputers.co.uk and you should find it

Title: Re:Buying a new Hard-Drive
Post by: Simon on November 11, 2002, 16:23

Hi Dave,

I found another one!  As I already have an IBM 7200rpm 40Gb, I can safely recommend them, so you might want to check this one out at Jungle.com (http://www.jungle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductInfoDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10001&productId=11211203000&langId=-1&itemId=11211203001)

Within your price range as well!   :)

Title: Re:Buying a new Hard-Drive
Post by: Sandra on November 12, 2002, 17:33

I am not sure on the price but have been told that Seagate drives are quite good and I would definitely bear those in mind for any future drives for my PC as I have a nice little program,obtained from their site, called Seagate Discwizard.
It  has diagnostic tools as well as fill with zeroes options,formatting and partitioning options which seem much easier than F disk to use  :-*