Older hard drives

Does anybody know where I can get a hold of the older 3.5" IDE hard drives
that run at 5400rpm ? I'm looking for a reasonably priced (new) one in the
range of 80GB - 120GB.

Have tried CCL, Scan, Aria, Tekheads, PCNextday, Komplett, PCWorld, eBay,
Maplin, ebuyer (rather not use them due to rep)

Thanks

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Does anybody know where I can get a hold of the older 3.5" IDE hard drives
that run at 5400rpm ? I'm looking for a reasonably priced (new) one in the
range of 80GB - 120GB.

Have tried CCL, Scan, Aria, Tekheads, PCNextday, Komplett, PCWorld, eBay,
Maplin, ebuyer (rather not use them due to rep)

Thanks



Try googling for a Surrey based company called 'Megabytes'. They may be
able to help.

HTH

B.

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Does anybody know where I can get a hold of the older 3.5" IDE hard drives
that run at 5400rpm ? I'm looking for a reasonably priced (new) one in the
range of 80GB - 120GB.

Have tried CCL, Scan, Aria, Tekheads, PCNextday, Komplett, PCWorld, eBay,
Maplin, ebuyer (rather not use them due to rep)

Thanks

Aria sell them, so do PC World as I was looking at them a few weeks ago.

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"?uzzled" wrote in message
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Does anybody know where I can get a hold of the older 3.5" IDE hard
drives that run at 5400rpm ? I'm looking for a reasonably priced (new)
one in the range of 80GB - 120GB.

Have tried CCL, Scan, Aria, Tekheads, PCNextday, Komplett, PCWorld, eBay,
Maplin, ebuyer (rather not use them due to rep)

Thanks

Aria sell them, so do PC World as I was looking at them a few weeks ago.



let me guess, xbox or sky+ ?

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In article , says...
Does anybody know where I can get a hold of the older 3.5" IDE hard
drives
that run at 5400rpm ? I'm looking for a reasonably priced (new) one in
the
range of 80GB - 120GB.

Have tried CCL, Scan, Aria, Tekheads, PCNextday, Komplett, PCWorld, eBay,
Maplin, ebuyer (rather not use them due to rep)

Thanks



Try googling for a Surrey based company called 'Megabytes'. They may be
able to help.

HTH

B.

Thanks but they only list 3 Hitachi drives, all running at 7200rpm.

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In article , says...
Does anybody know where I can get a hold of the older 3.5" IDE hard
drives
that run at 5400rpm ? I'm looking for a reasonably priced (new) one in
the
range of 80GB - 120GB.

Have tried CCL, Scan, Aria, Tekheads, PCNextday, Komplett, PCWorld, eBay,
Maplin, ebuyer (rather not use them due to rep)

Thanks



Try googling for a Surrey based company called 'Megabytes'. They may be
able to help.

HTH

B.

Thanks but they only list 3 Hitachi drives, all running at 7200rpm.

They have a retail shop, may be worth giving them a bell tomorrow.

B.

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"?uzzled" wrote in message
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Does anybody know where I can get a hold of the older 3.5" IDE hard
drives that run at 5400rpm ? I'm looking for a reasonably priced (new)
one in the range of 80GB - 120GB.

Have tried CCL, Scan, Aria, Tekheads, PCNextday, Komplett, PCWorld,
eBay, Maplin, ebuyer (rather not use them due to rep)

Thanks

Aria sell them, so do PC World as I was looking at them a few weeks ago.



let me guess, xbox or sky+ ?

Actually I want to stick it into a fanless external USB case. The lower spin
speed should hopefully keep them cooler. It should serve as a cheap backup
device so it doesn't need to be fast.

I'm a bit peeved with backing up onto CD and then finding out 2 - 3 years
down the line, you can't read from them anymore.

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Actually I want to stick it into a fanless external USB case. The lower spin
speed should hopefully keep them cooler. It should serve as a cheap backup
device so it doesn't need to be fast.

However, since back up is not running continuously, then it doesn't need to be
particularly quiet. It also follows that it will last a very long time if it's
not in permanent use. I wouldn't worry whether it's a 5400 or a 7200.

My back up policy is to copy important work to a second internal drive (or
another PC), and then occasionally use an external USB drive for long term
back up.

I'm a bit peeved with backing up onto CD and then finding out 2 - 3 years
down the line, you can't read from them anymore.

I think this is more of a problem with re-writeable CDs; they are more
sensitive to the CD reader, best read by the original writer. I can't really
se any use for re-writeable CD any more, now that we have large capacity
flash. For permanent storage you could also use DVD.

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Does anybody know where I can get a hold of the older 3.5" IDE hard
drives that run at 5400rpm ? I'm looking for a reasonably priced (new)
one in the range of 80GB - 120GB.

Have tried CCL, Scan, Aria, Tekheads, PCNextday, Komplett, PCWorld,
eBay, Maplin, ebuyer (rather not use them due to rep)

Thanks

Aria sell them, so do PC World as I was looking at them a few weeks
ago.



let me guess, xbox or sky+ ?

Actually I want to stick it into a fanless external USB case. The lower
spin speed should hopefully keep them cooler. It should serve as a cheap
backup device so it doesn't need to be fast.

I'm a bit peeved with backing up onto CD and then finding out 2 - 3 years
down the line, you can't read from them anymore.


obviously we havnt had long enough to really know but gold based disks are
supposed to be the ones for long term data storage, estimates seem to go to
about 100 years but as I said, noones been about long enough to verify that
yet. Yes they are a bit more expensive but not a kings ransom, especially
if it genuinely is valuable data.

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let me guess, xbox or sky+ ?

Sky+ works fine with 7200RPM drives. The new firmware even spins the
drives down when the unit is put into standby.


Yup, mine has a 120gb 7200 in it, but many of the old guides still advise
5400