Thread: Laptop Hard Drive

My laptop hard drive has recently started causing me problems, a little while ago, it was playing up, not sure why, but it might have been hit or something whilst the disk was spinning, as it travels a lot.

Fully formatting the disk fixed it though, and it ran at full speed. Anyway, now I'm getting slow boot ups and Windows and Linux are complaining of disk errors, so I am guessing the problem has come back. And I have also noticed the hard drive is getting very HOT, which is new.

So, I am looking for a good quality replacement 2.5inch hard drive. Only need around 250GB as most stuff is stored online. Just some movies, music and photos. I don't want something too expensive, but I want good quality, decent read speed and cache.

No budget really, as long as it is good quality for the money, but not too much ofc.

---------- Post added at 03:50 ---------- Previous post was at 03:49 ----------

Oh, and this will mean less of me here and less of me on xfire, until I get another.

what about using an external hard drive? Reparing laptops is aweful.

ocz do a 60Gb SSD for laptops for round £120>euro ?

Need internal, it has to run the operating systems as well and I don't like the idea of running an operating system off an external. And I use it on my lap, on the train, etc, quite a lot.

---------- Post added at 15:43 ---------- Previous post was at 15:35 ----------

Looking at some ssd's they're quite nice

yeah SSD's Are brillient if you dont need terrabytes of space with write speeds of over 150mb/s

All the ones I see are expensive for small memory, whats so good bout em?

with write speeds of over 150mb/s

reads, much faster than normal drive

No moving parts, so if you drop or knock them, no hole in a disk.
Less power required as no disk to spin, etc..
Less heat output, as they do not move.
They make no noise.
They're faster

I can smell the future here yea go with the ssd's, you won't regret it, my gf's laptop broke, her dads or whatever, and she has no problem since with the ssd upgrade. no data lost, nothing, and good speed. good luck

Yeah, wont regret it so long as it doensn't send me bankrupt. Got a Drive for Laptop to get, a new phone, a load of new bike gear...