Second hand HDD

[Clippy]

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.

[PRC1964]

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.

[AtW]

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).

[VectraMan]

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.

[Clippy]

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.

[doodab]

Scan.co.uk: Leading supplier of Hard Drives - Int.

[StopTheEarthIwantToGetOff]

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!