IDE hard drive

Swifty_3

Hi
can anyone help me in finding an IDE internal hard drive I want to spend about £35 and get as big a drive as possible.
Thanks

weegie.geek

You'll get a new 80GB drive for that. you'd be better spending a little extra and getting a much bigger SATA drive and one of these. http://www.amazon.co.uk/IOMAX-Drive-Converter-Connect-Motherboard/dp/B001CYXMDA

Going that route will bag you 500GB for around £45, and the drive will be a little more future proof.

Swifty_3

Thank I will take a look at that

ddoris

Have a look at a/v forums classifieds £35 might get a 1TB

weegie.geek

I'd be wary of buying a second hand drive tbh, some of them will have been absolutely hammered.

CHR15

I too would never buy a second hand hard drive.

1TB is fine, even by todays standards, so why would anyone be offloading it cheaply (unless it is goosed)?

prost

https://www.ebay.co.uk has the biggest range of new IDE drives. You can use the 'buy it now' button to avoid having to bid for it. IDE drives are cheaper than SATA, if your motherboard can use SATA. SATA drives are faster, but that's the only advantage.

I bought a new seagate 160Gb IDE for £20 inc. postage. The reviews for it said it wasn't fast, but I found that wasn't the case. Seagate drives are very quiet nowadays.

weegie.geek

prost wrote: »

www.ebay.co.uk has the biggest range of new IDE drives. You can use the 'buy it now' button to avoid having to bid for it. IDE drives are cheaper than SATA, if your motherboard can use SATA. SATA drives are faster, but that's the only advantage.

I bought a new seagate 160Gb IDE for £20 inc. postage. The reviews for it said it wasn't fast, but I found that wasn't the case. Seagate drives are very quiet nowadays.

GB for GB, IDE drives are much more expensive than SATA.

CHR15 wrote: »

I too would never buy a second hand hard drive.

1TB is fine, even by todays standards, so why would anyone be offloading it cheaply (unless it is goosed)?

1TB is fine, but plenty of us have much more data than that, and more space is always better.

I guess if you have limited space for drives, and you upgrade regularly, it can be relatively cheap to upgrade. Replace 5x1TB with 5x2TB for ~£425, minus 5x£35 (£175) for selling your old 1TB drives, and you've upgraded to 10TB space for £250, or £25 per TB.

Upgrade before the drives are out of warranty, and you can just keep trading in like that.

JasX

I have a 'hardly used' 320 GB one gathering dust on a shelf.... (ripped out of an external caddy my sister never quite worked out how to use before losing the PSU for)

Ought to get round to ebay-ing it but I'm sure everyone will assume as above its been thrashed and will be worse than trying to shift a used car

....hardly used..... ....one careful lady owner.... ....genuine low number of r/w cycles.... ...honest guv... :rotfl:

Lil306

Slightly offtopic, given the abundance of space being used up by people storing their data if your going down the routes of buying multiple drives you really should be delving into doing backups and building RAID arrays to reduce the chance of data loss due to disk failure.

Ontopic, IDE is expensive, and I don't like those SATA - IDE converters, I bought a 500GB Hitachi from Novatech for ~ £60 for my webserver, it's doing Hunky so far and I know it's not reconditioned and under warranty

CHR15

weegie.geek wrote: »

I guess if you have limited space for drives, and you upgrade regularly, it can be relatively cheap to upgrade. Replace 5x1TB with 5x2TB for ~£425, minus 5x£35 (£175) for selling your old 1TB drives, and you've upgraded to 10TB space for £250, or £25 per TB.

Each to thier own but i certainly wouldn't buy a second hand hard drive.

I did make the mistake once before of buying a "Brand New" hard drive from Ebay.

It arrived sealed in the anti static bag as expected and appeared brand new, but a couple of Months later it gave up.

Going back to the manufacturers, their response was that it was fitted as part of a system (they gave me the make/model) and without the OEM receipt for the system, there was no warranty cover. Obviously seller nowhere to be found although is was a business seller..... never again.

Not worth the risk IMO buying second hand hard drives.