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hi folks, i have just recently been getting a disk read error that i cant get rid of...

To be honest i think the hard drive had finaly gone to hard drive heaven! (was making some strange noises for a while)

My question is where is the best place to buy a new laptop hard drive? not looking for anything fancy just enough to keep some files and music on and will give me some expierance of changing the harddrive.

 

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Most of the standard suppliers will be able to sell you a hard drive no problems. Ebuyer.com, Dabs.com, Scan.co.uk etc...

You may want to consider getting a 7200rpm one to replace it, would give you a nice bump in speed as well as capacity. The 500GB ones are pretty resonable.

eg. Seagate ST9500420AS 500GB 2.5" Hard Drive SATAII.. | Ebuyer.com

 

cheers Modey, will have to wait till i get onto a computer to have a look, using my PS3 to type on here and for some reason it wont show me the page!

 

This one

Seagate 500GB Momentus XT 2.5" Hybrid SSD/HDD.. | Ebuyer.com

Seagate Momentus XT Via Youtube

 

I bought the 256gb Momentus XT and can not give it enough praise. Its the most significant upgrade I have made in terms of performance in over a decade. My boot times from pressing the power button to checking emails has gone from over 2 to 3 mins to under 20 seconds.

Do yourself a favour and save some boot time by purchasing a momentus XT, you will not regret it.

P.S.

I work for seagate by the way, just kidding.

Ickle

 

I was seriously tempted to get the 500gb momentus but got the 96gb kingston ssdnow100v+ instead and a 2tb hdd

Kingston 96GB V+100 2.5" SATA-II SSD Read 230MB/s.. | Ebuyer.com

and


Hitachi 2TB 3.5" Deskstar Coolspin SATA-III 6GB/s.. | Ebuyer.com

 

I went with a X-25 for my laptop but having to keep an eye on space is a bit of a bummer, Momentus XTs are good all rounders for laptops

 

Just bear in mind, he's looking to upgrade a laptop.

Good combo for a desktop though.

 

The seagate hybrid drive contains a little bit of NAND technology (4gb) so does improve the performance of everyday tasks significantly. Plus it has a 32mb cache and spins at 7200rpm. It outperforms some of the speedier desktop hdd and all laptop hdds including the Scorpio Blacks in real world use! At 256gb - 500gb it will store an OS (or 2) and leave room for data and applications. In a portable environment i.e. a laptop where space is paramount and the bulk of an extra HDD will mean the difference between taking it with you on a business trip or not the Momentus XT wins hands down.

For desktop PCs or laptops that rarely leave your home or office desk a true SSD will outperform a Momentus XT - but not by much in real world use.

I reccomend a Momentus XT or if you are on a budget go for a WD Scorpio Black.

 

YouTube - &Seagate Momentus XT Tests

 

I picked up a 500GB Momentus XT the other day and upgraded my laptop in a hotel with no internet
the only files on the raw drive now are two VHD files and some apps i am using the remaining space for like a shared install drive
both my OS's boot from VHD, no native OS installed, its awesome!

 

Wish they would hurry up and make 1/2 TB with 64GB SSD in a 3.5" bet they would shift a few of those