PC internal hard drive up to 40Gb

wazza

Friend has an old pc, a pentium3 which has a 4Gb hard drive. Looking to replace the hard drive with something bigger. Looking for a cheap harddrive of any size up to 40Gb. A 10Gb will do but it depends which is value for money. I know the bigger the size the cheaper the harddrive Gb/£ ratio. Since he is only using for writing documents and maybe surfing the net later on.

mrtg0525

TBH if you want something that small, ebay's probably your best bet and you may have to get a used one.

If I'm refurbishing old machines for use as firewalls/mail servers etc I just go an buy the smallest new disk I can find, even though I may be wasting some space. This is simply because I don't really want to have the potential hassle with a used harddisk, especially when you keep in mind that you can get a decent 80GB disk for around GBP30 these days.

wazza

mrtg0525 wrote: »

....................especially when you keep in mind that you can get a decent 80GB disk for around GBP30 these days.

Totally agree with you. Have noticed 80GB going for a couple of pounds more than 40GB. I will convince my friend to go for the largest size within his budget. Although the old motherboard may only use part of the memory if he decideds to buy a new computer he can take this hard drive and use it as a slave drive after it's operating system has been removed.

which retailer supplies lower priced hard drives. It seems a lot of 'budget' drives are maxtor.

Reluctant_spender

HAve a look at this samsung drive - 40gb - http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Drives/IDE/40GB+Samsung+IDE+7200RPM+HDD?productId=27408