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ladioffaith -> Cheap hard drive for Ye Old HP (6/27/2008 8:47:17 PM)

My hard drive died.

Cheapest one at Curcit City is $79 for 300 G, and Roomie thinks that's too big for my machine, which once had a much, much smaller hard drive and only 378 megs of ram.

Any ideas where I can get a good new one online? I'm going to be away from home for a couple of weeks so I can wait ...



Miss Giggles -> RE: Cheap hard drive for Ye Old HP (6/27/2008 9:25:15 PM)

Well its going to be hard to find a smaller one. That is the about the smallest size they sell now.

What's more important is just getting the right one. Is it IDE or a SATA drive?

tigerdirect.com is a good website. I'd check there.



iluvatar -> RE: Cheap hard drive for Ye Old HP (6/27/2008 10:18:47 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Miss Giggles

Well its going to be hard to find a smaller one. That is the about the smallest size they sell now.


It'll also be harder to find a cheaper one.

I could be wrong, but given that the computer is old enough to only have 384MB of RAM, I really doubt that it'd be a SATA drive.

-Dan.



ladioffaith -> RE: Cheap hard drive for Ye Old HP (6/27/2008 10:54:31 PM)

I don't know the difference.

Curicuit city has a 100G drive for $65 but it's not available yet.

I do know that it is the kind of HP that needed SD Ram, which I had to special order on e-bay.



figmentPez -> RE: Cheap hard drive for Ye Old HP (6/28/2008 12:46:53 AM)

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ORIGINAL: iluvatar

It'll also be harder to find a cheaper one.


Ha!

Western Digital Caviar SE WD800AAJS 80GB SATA from Newegg.com about $47 including shipping ($38.99 + $7.30)

Or, if you need IDE:

Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600AAJB 160GB 7200 RPM IDE about $54 with shipping ($45.99 + $7.30)

There are a lot more options at Newegg as well, from WD, Seagate and Hitachi. (I've never heard of Excelsior, so I'd avoid them as a "no name" brand.) Ranging in sizes from 40GB, up to 320GB before you hit the $70 mark (before shipping).

Here is a search at Newegg for drives under $80, from makers I'd trust, with an IDE interface.



ladioffaith -> RE: Cheap hard drive for Ye Old HP (6/28/2008 1:07:48 PM)

How do I know what kind of hard drive I need?

It is an HP Pavillion Desktop PC 7970. It has a Pentium 4 processor. Hope that helps.



Miss Giggles -> RE: Cheap hard drive for Ye Old HP (6/28/2008 2:13:07 PM)

You have to pull out the hard drive and look at how the cable goes into it.

If its in ide it looks like the picture at the right. It's probably an IDE since its an older computer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Attachment



rlj -> RE: Cheap hard drive for Ye Old HP (6/29/2008 5:15:32 PM)

According to HP it has this Motherboard: PGA423 Intel 850

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=bph06669&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=58463&lang=en

This has an ATA-100 controller or in other words IDE. I would put any old IDE in it really. The only disadvantage to going real big is the bigger the drive the faster it tends to go and the hotter it gets. I'm not usually impressed with the cooling in store bought systems. The drive for $79 from the store is probably fine.



cammo2006 -> RE: Cheap hard drive for Ye Old HP (6/29/2008 8:16:33 PM)

As a side note, if your RAM ever fails, it'll probably be cheaper to replace the computer. RDRAM... Ehhhh....



ladioffaith -> RE: Cheap hard drive for Ye Old HP (6/29/2008 10:38:32 PM)

I bought 256 mb of Ram for this thing when I bought it used. There is not room for much more.

I also have replaced every drive but the hard drive.

Anyway ... I just bought another computer on e-bay. This one is 5 years old, has twice as much ram as mine, a faster processor and 60 G hard drive.

I am going to turn over the old one to a friend from church and let him check it out. If it does indeed need a hard drive, I plan to put my new drives in the computer I just bought, put the old ones in my old computer, and tell my friend that it's hers if she buys a hard drive.

Anyway ... I think a smaller hard drive is about all this thing can handle.



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