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    need some advice for buying HDD

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by fedee, Feb 29, 2012.

  1. fedee

    fedee Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi the HDD on my DELL E6400 just failed (a few days after the 3 years warranty expired!!), so I need to buy a new one.
    The failed drive is a seagate momentus 5400.4 250GB
    I was wondering if anyone would be able to suggest a new drive. I need something basic and not expensive as I'll be using this machine very sporadically, so not very interested in performance/noise, while reliability is still important of course. 250GB more than enough for what I need, actually even a smaller one would be OK if it is cheaper. If anyone could also provide a link where I can buy a new hdd at a good price, that would be great. I live in the UK.

    sorry if this is a very naive question, but I would not really know what drive I have to buy at the moment, or where it would be convenient to buy from. thanks
     
    fedee, Feb 29, 2012
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    saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    If it's only a few days (say a week or less) after the warranty expired, it might be worth a call to Dell to see if they'll take pity on you and replace it.
     
    saturnotaku, Feb 29, 2012
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  3. fedee

    fedee Notebook Enthusiast

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    tried that, but no luck, warranty expired for 2 weeks. any tip on what HDD I could buy would be useful
     
    fedee, Feb 29, 2012
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    You need a SATA hard drive. If you don't care about performance a 160GB of 256GB 5400RPM drive is probably your cheapest option.
     
    ZaZ, Feb 29, 2012
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    AESdecryption Notebook Evangelist

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    The Dell E6400 uses the SATA interface, so I'd recommend that you buy a retail HDD that is 2.5 inch (notebook-size). A place that you can choose to buy is from Amazon (they ship within UK).

    Here are a few SATA drives that are produced by their respective manufacturer; there are others, but I can't list them all:

    Western Digital ( here)
    Seagate ( here)
    Intel SSDs ( here)

    The original specification sheet for the Dell E6400 can be found here for reference.
     
    AESdecryption, Feb 29, 2012
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