Samsung HDD-40GBPATA-G 40GB 7200RPM Hard Drive 40GB IDE FREE P&P £14.99

justlooking

Samsung HDD-40GBPATA-G 40GB 7200RPM Hard Drive 40GB IDE FREE P&P £14.99


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-HDD-40GBPATA-G-40GB-7200RPM-Drive/dp/tech-data/B000P34DMI/ref=de_a_smtd

Posted on Hotdeals (Tinners)

Product Features

• Manufacturer: Samsung
• Interface: ATA 133
• Capacity: 40GB
• Rotation Speed: 7200rpm
• Cache: 2MB
• Seek Time: 8.9ms
• Warranty: 3 Years

Technical Details


Manufacturer: Samsung
Interface: ATA 133
Capacity: 40GB
Rotation Speed: 7200rpm
Cache: 2MB
Seek Time: 8.9ms
Warranty: 3 Years

wannasave_2

only 40GB :eek:
and only 3 quid off :eek:

don't seem like much of a grabbit to me :rotfl:

justlooking

Drive was cheap to start with. Ok if your building up a cheap PC or for backing up your doc's or to put in a USB external case free post what more do you want.

EdCov

Surely you still have to spend a penny to get free delivery!

ubergeek

Not a good deal as the £ to GByte ratio is pants!

(Noted that this is also on HotUKdeals with an earlier time)

foraminafera

Not clear from the Amazon page - but if it was a Deskstar (aka Deathstar) I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole regardless of price. They have something of a reputation and I got hit by a sudden drive electronics failure myself 5 years ago (about). The drive was unrecognised by BIOS so the disk itself may have been OK - just no way to get at the data (and yes - it was 40Gb).

If you have good (recent) experience then by all means, maybe they got better - but once (hard) bitten.....

ManAtHome

The Deathstars were IBM and then only specific batches (I still have a 40GB one running).

Spookily enough there was another thread a couple of days back looking for a 40gig or similar for an old PC (possibly with a 32GB BIOS/OS limit).

RichardJohn_2

foraminafera wrote: »

Not clear from the Amazon page - but if it was a Deskstar (aka Deathstar) I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole regardless of price. They have something of a reputation and I got hit by a sudden drive electronics failure myself 5 years ago (about). The drive was unrecognised by BIOS so the disk itself may have been OK - just no way to get at the data (and yes - it was 40Gb).

If you have good (recent) experience then by all means, maybe they got better - but once (hard) bitten.....

...wrong company.

wazza

ubergeek wrote: »

Not a good deal as the £ to GByte ratio is pants!

(Noted that this is also on HotUKdeals with an earlier time)

works out to be 37.5p/GB

justlooking

My point was if you were after a small drive at a cheap price it was ok.if you don't have alot of money to spend its better than 2nd hand.Also some people have old PC's that can't take larger drives.