best hard drive under 30 pounds?

i'm thinking of getting a cheap notebook and upgrading its components... so what do you think the fastest hd under 30 pounds is? since this is on a budget, i'd prefer the cheapest possible

 

What? Sorry rewrite my friend? Notebook HDD do not weigh 30 pounds? You talking money?

 

soz yeah i meant money... my keyboard in US layout atm...

 

he meant £30

60-80GB from ebay including delivery.

Western Digital WD1200BEVS 120GB 2.5" SATA Hard Drive 5400RPM 8MB Cache - OEM
£31 + P&P from ebuyer.com

Hitachi 80GB 2.5" Hard Drive ATA100 5400rpm 8MB Cache - OEM
£32.24 + P&P from ebuyer.com

 

Checkout LambdaTek. I remember seeing the 250GB 7200.3 under £50.

 

Jisaac what laptop are you going to be? Are you still going to buy an EeePC or did I manage to convince you to go for something else?

 

See also Micro Direct. PATA / IDE or SATA depending on whatever notebook you get.

John

 

Well my mum was a bit p***** when she found out i broke my laptop lol... so i'm gonna be buying this outa my pocket money: hence why my budget is so tight. I'm not sure yet.... either i get a netbook (preferably an eee) or i get some crappy system off ebay, and upgrade the components myself. If i take the 2nd option, i'll probs get sum celeron m laptop and upgrade to a c2d or something... dunno really - still exploring my options.

btw ne1 no off any good looking celeron m laptops going cheap on ebay?

 

Checkout Acer Aspire 5315/4315/5720 (Santa Rosa). You can get them for 15 Quid at carphonewarehouse with a broadband connection, but they should be available for about £200 on ebay.

 

That's good.

I'm looking myself for a Dell Precision M70 myself to fix the damaged screen in the one I have. So if I found something I'll PM you.

Second hand Gateway laptops with a Celeron are usually cheap in ebay despite their good built quality!

 

I think you're better off with an eee.
even cutdown/outdated c2ds like the one I have are about 100 quid, mobile chips are pretty expensive.
some ram, a cpu and a hdd would easily cost you 200 quid. things are just expensive in the UK

 

I agree and desagree with you. I agree that things are bloody expensive in the UK, but desagree whenyou say that Jisaac should get an eee.

The laptop below is like mine:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GATEWAY-W340UI-LAPTOP-CELERON-WIDESCREEN-WIRELESS_W0QQitemZ120308225003QQihZ002QQcategoryZ177QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
The original CPU is a celeron M420. I upgraded mine to a T2500, but it will support all socket M CPUs with 533mhz and 667mhz FSB (133 and 166 effective):

Celeron M 410, M 420, M 430, M 440, M 450
Celeron M 520 - 1.60 GHz, 1 Mb, 533 MHz, M
Celeron M 530 - 1.73 GHz, 1 Mb, 533 MHz, M

Pentium Dual Core T2050 - 1.60 GHz, 2 Mb, 533 MHz, M
Pentium Dual Core T2060 - 1.60 GHz, 1 Mb, 533 MHz, M
Pentium Dual Core T2080 - 1.73 GHz, 1 Mb, 533 MHz, M
Pentium Dual Core T2130 - 1.87 GHz, 1 Mb, 533 MHz, M

Core Duo T2300 - 1.66 GHz, 2 Mb, 667 MHz, M
Core Duo T2400 - 1.83 GHz, 2 Mb, 667 MHz, M
Core Duo T2500 - 2.00 GHz, 2 Mb, 667 MHz, M
Core Duo T2600 - 2.16 GHz, 2 Mb, 667 MHz, M
Core Duo T2700 - 2.33 GHz, 2 Mb, 667 MHz, M

Core 2 Duo T5200 - 1.60 GHz, 2 Mb, 533 MHz, M
Core 2 Duo T5500 - 1.66 GHz, 2 Mb, 667 MHz, M
Core 2 Duo T5600 - 1.83 GHz, 2 Mb, 667 MHz, M

Core 2 Duo T7200 - 2.00 GHz, 4 Mb, 677 MHz, M
Core 2 Duo T7400 - 2.16 GHz, 4 Mb, 677 MHz, M
Core 2 Duo T7600 - 2.33 GHz, 4 Mb, 677 MHz, M

This laptop is listed as having a 15.4" screen. This is a mistake as it has a 14.1" wxga screen.

The hardrive is an IDE HDD. The seller is asking for £150 but accepts offers. I'm not sure what CPU you've in the Asus S6F. I found a review saying that their is two types of CPU in the S6F the L2400 and the T2300. If your's has the T2300 you can swap it with the Celeron M420 in the Gateway. The Asus S6F HDD is SATA so it won't fit the Gateway

 

The Gateway in the link uses the ATI 200M chipset. Hence you can pin mod a 533mhz CPU on in to run at 667mhz.

So if you use the T2050 below you can run it at 2ghz (like a T2500) instead of it's default 1.6ghz.

T2050
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Intel-Core-2-Duo-T2050-1-66GHz-CPU-Processor_W0QQitemZ280266859666QQihZ018QQcategoryZ51162QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
and
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Intel-Core-Duo-CPU-1-60GHz-T2050_W0QQitemZ300260369654QQihZ020QQcategoryZ51162QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

T2400
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/INTEL-CORE-DUO-T2400-1-83GHz-CPU-1-83-2MB-L2-667-SL8VQ_W0QQitemZ130256392688QQihZ003QQcategoryZ51162QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

T5600
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/core-2-duo-t5600-1-83ghz_W0QQitemZ320301434043QQihZ011QQcategoryZ51162QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

LOL

Yea, it got me at first too.

 

Mine has the L2300... which is soldered - so no swaps i'm afraid. The S6F HD is ide... so it will fit - the S6F M is SATA on the other hand.
cheers for your response

 

no problem
The gateway with the W340U chassi are very good and solid. The only thing I'm not happy with is you have to dismental the laptop completely to gain access to the CPU... but then I don't do CPU upgrade every day

 

Acer 3680 with a Celeron M
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-3680-4718235001346-PC-Notebook_W0QQitemZ220285264600QQihZ012QQcategoryZ177QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem