500gb for £50 ~

[Puppetmaster]

Looking to get a new hard drive, as one of my seagates is borked the other on the way out, within about a month of each other which is quite shocking.

looking for a 500gb sata drive for less than £50 ideally.

What can people recommend?

My motherboard is an nf4 asus a8n sli deluxe. Not sure if it supports sata II, is that a problem or do all sata mobo's support them?

Thanks

 

[PhillyDee]

You always have the Hitatchi for under 50 notes, or failing that, its £54 for the WD (Maxtor are [poor {apparently} ] seagates*).











* see what i did there

 

[Puppetmaster]

i was looking at http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...nt F1 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502IJ)

 

[AbsenceJam]

A good choice but I would strongly suggest spending an extra tenner on the 640GB F1. An extra 20MB/s~ faster, slightly better access times and 140GB more space.

 

[Puppetmaster]

A good choice but I would strongly suggest spending an extra tenner on the 640GB F1. An extra 20MB/s~ faster, slightly better access times and 140GB more space.

got a source for that?

 

[AbsenceJam]

Just look in the benchmark topic or Google for any review. It has twice the platter density (334GB over 166GB) and is newer tech.

 

[Greenlizard0]

Just look in the benchmark topic or Google for any review. It has twice the platter density (334GB over 166GB) and is newer tech.

Yeap, go for the 640GB one for sure

 

[Puppetmaster]

ok order placed

 

[Greenboi]

A good choice but I would strongly suggest spending an extra tenner on the 640GB F1. An extra 20MB/s~ faster, slightly better access times and 140GB more space.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...nt F1 640GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD642JJ)

that one? also looking to get a new drive next month, but wont have much to spend

 

[AbsenceJam]

Yes.

 

[tres]

Don't do Maxtors

I've had 2
2 have failed