Which Hard drive Shall i get!?

[Garrett]

Hello, i have a 5 year old acer aspire 3050 running windows 7 perfectly.
Only probelm is i have filled up the harddrive so im looking to upgrade it.
The connection is Ide and not SATA so please dont say get one ..
These are the two i am looking at:

Generic Notebook Hard Disk 2.5 Inch Drive 160GB IDE - 1: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo

This has a slower spin(5200) speed but a 2mb-16mb chache

Samsung HM160HC 160GB 5400prm PATA: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo

Faster spin speed (5400) only an 8mb chache

Firstly which one do you guys and gals think i could buy?

Secondly any other suggestions?

GARRETT

 

[Jonathan_King]

I recommend the one with the bigger cache. The 200 RPM difference is insignificant at best. They are essentially the same speed.

 

[pebbly]

hi garret give these a try cheaper than Amazon Scan.co.uk: Leading supplier of Hard Drives - Int.

 

[Garrett]

thanks.. Altough that website doesnt have any with 8mb + chache and its not that much cheaper
So min 2mb max 16mb chache is good right?

 

[Jonathan_King]

Sounds good to me.

 

[whs]

The easy way out would be an external USB drive to which you can offload all the big files (video, music, pictures). You can use them just as well from an external drive and you can easily include the folders into the libraries (works for external disks but not for USB sticks).

 

[Garrett]

Not really the easy way out..
I have a laptop, i have a laptop because it is portable..
i dont want to be lugging about some external harddrive ..

 

[whs]

Not really the easy way out..
I have a laptop, i have a laptop because it is portable..
i dont want to be lugging about some external harddrive ..

Hmm, I guess. I always lug a little 2.5" USB powered 500GB external drive with my laptops because that's where I keep all the files that I need. For me that is easier because then I need not maintain those files on 3 seperate Laptops (and 2 desktops). But for a single laptop that may be an extra inconvenience.

 

[pebbly]

Garrett, what about this one WD Blue 500GB 2.5 SATA Internal Laptop Hard Drive - NEW on eBay (end time 10-Apr-10 19:26:44 BST)

 

[neo101]

Garrett, what about this one WD Blue 500GB 2.5 SATA Internal Laptop Hard Drive - NEW on eBay (end time 10-Apr-10 19:26:44 BST)

Well OP said OP only wants IDE/ATA drive!

But on the other hand, blowing an Xtra tenner on an ATA<>SATA adaptor (if there was room) . . . . .

 

[not so gray matter]

I'd recommend an external hard drive. I'm guessing you have enough space for your operating system & programs. That's all you really need on your main drive. All media/documents/storage can be put on an external disk. They're cheap nowadays too. You can pick up a 1TB external for about $100. If you're looking for something more portable, there are external hard drives that can be powered by two usb ports. (One usb port if it's high powered, but most laptop ports aren't.)

 

[Garrett]

Garrett, what about this one WD Blue 500GB 2.5 SATA Internal Laptop Hard Drive - NEW on eBay (end time 10-Apr-10 19:26:44 BST)

Well OP said OP only wants IDE/ATA drive!

But on the other hand, blowing an Xtra tenner on an ATA<>SATA adaptor (if there was room) . . . . .

Can you get ata to sata adaptors for laptops?
Im not sure i will have enough room

 

[Garrett]

I'd recommend an external hard drive. I'm guessing you have enough space for your operating system & programs. That's all you really need on your main drive. All media/documents/storage can be put on an external disk. They're cheap nowadays too. You can pick up a 1TB external for about $100. If you're looking for something more portable, there are external hard drives that can be powered by two usb ports. (One usb port if it's high powered, but most laptop ports aren't.)

The harddrive on here is slow and pretty much broken...
I was running xp with a constant 1gb paging file because i only had 256mb ram..
It needs scraping!

 

[pebbly]

what about this one Garrett Samsung 160 GB 8M IDE Hard Drive + FREE ENCLOSURE on eBay (end time 05-May-10 12:19:53 BST) with a free enclosure, you could put your old hard drive in it and use as a backup