Cost Of New Hard Drive ??

firefox1956

I think my computer hard drive is getting a bit slow.
After 5 years of 10 hours a day I suppose its not done too bad.
Went into the computer shop I have used for years for a price for a new hard drive & transfer of data.
Just a bog standard hard drive nothing fancy
Quoted me 105.00 GBP.......
I think they might be taking the p*ss..........
Anybody else think the same ??

Collabora

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£60 for a Toshiba 2TB SATA3 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - 7200rpm

Cisco001

Not too bad.

New 1TB HDD £45
'Engineer' to transfer your data, say £20/ hr. Say 2hr = £40

Plus VAT @ 20%.

grumpycrab

Not necessarily "money saving" but a SSD could breathe new life into your laptop. What is the "used" space on your existing drive? And make/model of laptop?

bsod

The most likely cause is software, in which case you don't have to spend anything.

esuhl

Hard drives don't usually slow down over their lifespan. If you've scanned for malware and disabled unnecessary startup items, then reinstalling the OS would be your best bet at restoring the original performance of the machine.

Doshwaster

Cisco001 wrote: »

Not too bad.

New 1TB HDD £45
'Engineer' to transfer your data, say £20/ hr. Say 2hr = £40

Plus VAT @ 20%.

Or find a friend who knows what they are doing for the cost of a couple of pints.

jbainbridge

Doshwaster wrote: »

Or find a friend who knows what they are doing for the cost of a couple of pints.

I am that friend ... and people have no idea what is involved!

£105 seems reasonable.

securityguy

Doshwaster wrote: »

Or find a friend who knows what they are doing for the cost of a couple of pints.

I do know what I'm doing, and I wouldn't do it for a couple of pints. Touch someone else's computer and you end being blamed for everything that ever happens to it. No good deed goes unpunished, and since being bitten a few years ago (I swapped the hard drive in someone's machine and got blamed when six months later the power supply went) I maintain my own kit, my parents' kit and no-one else's.

OP, hard drives don't slow down. Filesystems need de-fragmenting, sometimes, and machine acquire a load of rubbish software that needs cleaning up. If you're going to pay someone to swap the hard drive, consider an SSD. Forty quid for the labour is perfectly reasonable.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

esuhl wrote: »

Hard drives don't usually slow down over their lifespan. If you've scanned for malware and disabled unnecessary startup items, then reinstalling the OS would be your best bet at restoring the original performance of the machine.

OP shop around local PC repair shops some charge £10 when buying a HDD some charge more to transfer data form one to other HDD.


I would look at Solid states, but if your laptop is OLD, then it "may" pose a potential problem in that the SSD may require additional software and bios updates to run it and although will appear faster, youll may only have a 3gb transfer limit on your
mobo and the fastest these thing can go is 6gb so it would be halved in speed. but still beneficial to go SSD if you upgrade the laptop in future.

anotheruser

securityguy wrote: »

Filesystems need de-fragmenting

For someone who is so IT savvy as you state, you should know modern systems (anything from Windows Vista and on) don't need this any more.
Maybe 20 years ago, and even then it didn't do very much...

OP: You will find the majority of people here will say they are IT experts. THIS IS A LIE. Perhaps not a total lie, but find an IT forum where you're more likely get the same answer from many posters instead of people on a money saving forum who perhaps aren't as tech savvy as they like to think.

And whatever you do, DON'T GO TO PC WORLD!