Second hand HDD

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StopTheEarthIwantToGetOff replied

16 September 2010, 14:31
I say go for it!
Who knows what interesting data you might be able to scrape from the platters!

Examples:

MP3z
Pr0n
Moviez
Unlikely but not impossible, work related stuff!

We could also run a sweepstake on when it will fail!

A fiver says sub 12 months!
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doodab replied

10 September 2010, 10:55
Scan.co.uk: Leading supplier of Hard Drives - Int.
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Clippy replied

10 September 2010, 10:23
Unfortunately, the drives quoted are SATA ones which as, rightly mentioned, are a lot of drive for the money but I need an IDE drive.
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VectraMan replied

10 September 2010, 08:30
Originally posted by PRC1964 View Post

Right now there's a 250GB laptop drive going for £18.00. I'd give it a go and chuck it away it it dosn't work.

A quick look at Dabs and there's pleanty of new 250GB drives for £30-£35. If that doesn't work, you can send it back and get a refund. Not sure why you'd bother with a second hand one.
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AtW replied

10 September 2010, 00:30
Only do it if you don't value the data you plan to store on it at all.

Laptop drives are particularly unreliable, do yourself a favour and buy brand new, prices are cheap unless you go high end (and those are also cheap if you look back 5-10 years).
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PRC1964 replied

9 September 2010, 21:43
Right now there's a 250GB laptop drive going for £18.00. I'd give it a go and chuck it away it it dosn't work.
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Clippy started a topic Second hand HDD

9 September 2010, 19:50
Second hand HDD

I have an old Dell laptop onto which I want to install Win7.

However, it could do with a bigger HDD.

Don't really want to spend too much so was thinking of getting a second hand HDD from eBay.

Is it worth doing this or is it a gamble too far?

The laptop is a spare which isn't used for anything critical.
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