New Laptop Harddrive

johnmcdnl

Where's the best place around Dublin city to buy a large hard drive for a laptop... I'm thinking at least 500gb or 750gb

Any suggestions for good websites would be appreciated too

thanks

dilallio

Amazon.co.uk are good and have free delivery.

hearny

Elara have good prices and a goo choice:
http://www.elara.ie/products/harddisklaptop.asp?available=checked&

Skerries

if it is a SATA then *Jedi wave*these are the drives you are looking for

http://www.dabs.ie/products/samsung-640gb-spinpoint-m7-enhanced-sata-300-5400rpm-8mb-2-5---perfect-for-ps3-upgrade--79K8.html?refs=41580000-52450000-52780000

johnmcdnl

http://www.dabs.ie/products/samsung-1tb-spinpoint-mt2-sata-300-5400rpm-8mb-2-5--mobile-hard-drive-76HX.html?refs=52450000-41580000-52780000


and this is the spec/details of the one I'm taking out - can anyone give me the thumbs up that this new drive will compatible with my laptop


ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: TOSHIBA MK2046GSX
Serial Number: 48EMC5F2T
Firmware Revision: LB013M
Transport: Serial, ATA8-AST, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5, SATA Rev 2.6
Standards:
Supported: 8 7 6 5
Likely used: 8
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 16383 16383
heads 16 16
sectors/track 63 63
--
CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064
LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455
LBA48 user addressable sectors: 390721968
Logical Sector size: 512 bytes
Physical Sector size: 512 bytes
device size with M = 1024*1024: 190782 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 200049 MBytes (200 GB)
cache/buffer size = 8192 KBytes
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
Queue depth: 32
Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum
R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16
Advanced power management level: 254
DMA: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns

Voodu Child

No, that likely won't fit since it is 12.5mm high. The standard 2.5" drive height is 9.5mm, and very few laptops will take a 12.5mm drive.

johnmcdnl

Voodu Child wrote: »

No, that likely won't fit since it is 12.5mm high. The standard 2.5" drive height is 9.5mm, and very few laptops will take a 12.5mm drive.

jsut noticed that there - thanks for pointing it out though..

http://www.dabs.ie/products/western-digital-750gb-scorpio-blue-sata-300-5400rpm-8mb-2-5--764D.html?refs=52450000-41580000-381230000

any opinions on this one??

U_Fig

I've used http://shop4memory.com a few times fast selivery and products have been good. They're Irish based