Where to buy cheap computer parts online

Cisco001

Tarambor wrote: »

Utter rubbish. A 1TB Western Digital Hard Drive is a 1TB Western Digital Hard drive whether you're paying £50 for it or £100 for it.

For HDD, that may be true.
But you don't expect cheap £20 rubbish PSU as would be any reliable as those mid-range £50 unit

Carrot007

Tarambor wrote: »

Buy cheap - buy twice
Utter rubbish.

It you would like some proof of the above compare.


https://www.amazon.co.uk/512GB-128GB-Phones-Tablet-Painting/dp/B01NH7NPYU/ref=sr_1_3?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1531398492&sr=1-3&keywords=2tb+usb+stick


And I see they have made the description less !!!!!!!!, but a still fake and I'm sure some are still claiming to be 2TB.



To.


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-DTUGT-2TB-Traveler-Ultimate/dp/B06X1CSCZB/ref=sr_1_8?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1531398492&sr=1-8&keywords=2tb+usb+stick




Someone brought me one when the info just said 2TB. It was 8GB and also preloaded with malware. And not flashable back to the right size so worth nothing but binning.

stator

dabs.com, ebuyer.com, Scan.co.uk, Aria.co.uk, CCL, Novatech

stragglebod

Tarambor wrote: »

Utter rubbish. A 1TB Western Digital Hard Drive is a 1TB Western Digital Hard drive whether you're paying £50 for it or £100 for it.

I think what @Le_Kirk meant was 'buy cheap something that doesn't actually exist - buy twice'

mksysb

For me, Amazon were marginally cheaper than anywhere else, plus good fast delivery.

Neil_Jones

In some area of computer components, you get what you pay for. Power Supplies and Graphics Cards are the two most obvious examples.

Others it really makes no difference, but that being said, Western Digital split their hard drives into one of five colours - black, blue, red, green and purple. Black is the performance, Blue is the regular, Red is the premium drive, Green drives run slower, while Purple is designed for running all the time. The green and blue drives are about the same price (sometimes green is cheaper), black slightly more expensive than blue, and purple and red are the premium drives for reliability.

Memory, much memory is about the same but pay slightly more for something like Kingston, Crucial and Corsair and it rarely goes wrong. Budget memory used to fail endlessly, but that's less of an issue today.

Motherboards you can pay more for one with more features or built-in support for something but if you're not going to use it, its a waste of time. Unless you have a need for a specific feature that you have to have on board, a budget one is typically fine for most users. Some people swear by specific brands, but YMMV.

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these claim to be cheaper than amazon, but the price offer takes a day to get back to you, and deliver is not always quick

https://flubit.com/