Cheapest 500GB SATA Hard Drive

Quickblood

I'm looking to buy a 500GB hard drive next Friday (pay day, yay!) and I was wondering what's the cheapest one I can get including VAT & P&P.

The cheaper ones at my usual haunts all seem to be around £60. I'm not too bothered about cache, warranty or brand & I'm not expecting any miracles but I'd like to see if you guys can do better. I know ocassionally there are ridiculously good deals out there and I'm just really hoping to get lucky.

motorguy

plugging 500gb sata into pricerunner yields a few at around the £58 mark delivered. Amazon £59.99 delivered.

Struggling to find any below £58.

chuckles1066

Quickblood wrote: »

I'm looking to buy a 500GB hard drive next Friday (pay day, yay!) and I was wondering what's the cheapest one I can get including VAT & P&P.

The cheaper ones at my usual haunts all seem to be around £60. I'm not too bothered about cache, warranty or brand & I'm not expecting any miracles but I'd like to see if you guys can do better. I know ocassionally there are ridiculously good deals out there and I'm just really hoping to get lucky.

Cheapest rarely equates to the most reliable, you need to bear that in mind, particularly when buying a storage device.

b33r

I'd highly recommend the Samsung spinpoints - ive got two 250 GB and theyre extremely quiet. Anyway the 500GB SATAII Spinpoint with 16MB cache is 56.99 at ebuyer at the moment:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130454

and shipping is free if you put it down to 5 days supersaver.

hth

BritBrat

I'd highly recommend the Samsung spinpoints - ive got two 250 GB and theyre extremely quiet. Anyway the 500GB SATAII Spinpoint with 16MB cache is 56.99 at ebuyer at the moment:

Look to buy a (1) Samsung or (2) Western Digital.

Or (1000) Maxtor.

Bob63

Western Digital are an unreliable P.O.S. as I have posted in the past and will continue to post at ever opportunity. This is an opinion based on 25 years in the computer industry.

Quickblood

chuckles1066 wrote: »

Cheapest rarely equates to the most reliable, you need to bear that in mind, particularly when buying a storage device.

Considered it, decided to ignore it. There doesn't seem to be any good way to gauge how reliable a hard drive will be. The only manufacturer I'd probably avoid right now is Maxtor as they're the only ones I can think of where I constantly run into complaints. Other than that I've had good & bad experiences with Western Digital and I'm sure over time everyone will say the same about any manufacturer so I'm pretty open.

So that Samsung is gonna be hard to beat. Oh well should have known I'd be buying from Ebuyer, agaain!

chuckles1066

cheesy.mike wrote: »

Western Digital are an unreliable P.O.S. as I have posted in the past and will continue to post at ever opportunity. This is an opinion based on 25 years in the computer industry.

Interesting.

My company buy their computers from Dell and one of the caveats is that they come fitted with WD drives...........and we purchase thousands of units a year.

Horses for courses I guess?

LadyMorticia

cheesy.mike wrote: »

Western Digital are an unreliable P.O.S. as I have posted in the past and will continue to post at ever opportunity. This is an opinion based on 25 years in the computer industry.

I am inclined to agree with you. Whilst I have only ever owned one Western Digital, I will never ever buy any Western Digital products ever again.

I bought the 500GB MyBook from Amazon for £69.99. At first it appeared to be working ok. I transferred all my music and photos onto it. I made CD backups of my photos just in case anything did happen.
After a couple of weeks my laptop stopped recognising the external hard drive. I tried everything I could to get it to work but to no avail. I tried it on different computers/laptops and none of them would recognise it.

It was only after reading the most recent reviews of the MyBook that I discovered that I wasn't the only one with this problem.

I know that there may be be a lot of people who have had good experiences with WD, but I am not one of them.

xx

greyster

Lady - Feel your disappointment in a non satisfactory product but this is life. You can buy a skirt with a hole in from a good retailer, you take it back and exchange.

The problem is with this device you invested a lot of time into it and potentially risk losing data, which you can not with a dress.

In industry when a company uses a harddisk, they use many and set them up in a way that WHEN a disk dies they lose no data.

Home users are always at risk and that is why we need to be prepared at all times and have our data backed up in many places.

I would be glad it blew up quickly and not after a month when you had a lot of your data on it.

WD is a good brand and backed by major manufacturers like Dell. Why would Dell risk using crap harddisks?

I could say I have a mybook and my friends have one and had no problems but I'm a small sample, just like the guy who has 25 years experience in the PC industry (although WD itself isnt 25 years old so I wonder how useful that experience is with regards to passing judgement on WD).

I say to all to review the facts, not one post and not just mine. WD like all retailers product 0.something% of defected products a year, you were unlucky. I doubt you will have a problem again... WD is a good brand. Backed by big brands. and sold with a good warranty and advice on how end users should back up their data at home.

Name a brand on MSE where someones HD hasn't blown up.