Old laptop is playing up. Can't format the drive, CHKDSK gets stuck, Windows Installer cannot partition becuase of errors. Can't even boot into the Ubuntu installation due to the partial format ¬¬ Where can I find a cheap 2.5" HDD? Online the cheapest I can fid is about £40 for 160gb. Really don't need anything that big- I mean, 20gb would do. Do they still even produce drives this small? Cheers. In the UK.
Try having a look at this site, they are pretty cheap. http://www.cclonline.com/product-categories.asp?category_id=457
I just brought a 500GB hard drive for 35 pounds off ebuyer. Highly recommend you check that site out everythings really cheap and if the order is over 50 pound free delivery
Do you know what connection it requires? The trouble is that as the cost of hard drives has come down, the smaller hard drives have been phased out, so that £30-40 tends to be the bare minimum. I'd recommend eBuyer, personally. Always been quite cheap.
SATA II apparently. Cheers for the advice. It does seem like the cheapest they get is about £40. It only needs a weeny HDD as it is just for light web surfing (and has seen next to no use, in fact), but it is understandable that there is no demand for small sizes any more.
£26.99 for a Western Digital 120GB 2.5" Hard Drive SATAII 5400rpm 8MB Cache from ebuyer - Link Scan.co.uk did have something like a 40gb in clearance for £17 but they are out of stock right now so not sure if they will get any in? Tried looking for a smaller drive but that 120GB is the smallest i could find that and the cheapest.
Oh there is a demand, just not a large enough one for manufacturers to bother with. I could use some replacement drives for a 486 and it would be nice to pop one into an Apple II, might be able to swap in a compact flash card.
3d0, thats top notch. Cheers for the link. Having fun with Seagates Seatools atm. Tops out at 99 errors in the long test (I believe that is the most that it will report before ceasing). A 'Zero All' format hangs at 25%. And to top it off, it started a rhythmic squeaking noise. Yep, looks like our first HDD failure lol.
Ah it's not good when a HDD starts going, especially when seatools is giving you errors. I'm actually on my 3rd seagate drive in about 2 years and so far no problems have come up yet with the current drive. As APE said there is a demand just not a big enough one to make it worth while although i bet if you have a lot of time and look hard enough you'd find a small enough drive your looking for.
Found a 120gb (or 160, I can't remember) Samsung drive on Amazon from a Marketplace seller, new for £25 with postage. Whipped my external HDD apart and luckily that can just act as a caddy. Sticking its drive into the laptop produced a pass on Seatools. Sticking the dead HDD into the caddy and plugging it into 3 windows PCs- drivers were installed but none would show the drive in My Computer. Whoop whoop.
