Cheap and high capacity replacement disk

[Aghanim]

My secondary 250 GB drive just potentially died right now, so do any one of you know a cheap high capacity disk that could be used for replacing this disk?

[sjwt]

I don think you can buy less then 1TB these days, just get whatever you can =>

[lajoswinkler]

First of all, you need to define "cheap".

[Smidge204]

Best value you're going to find will probably be a 2TB drive, which will run you US$90-120. That's the best $/GB deal I've managed to find.

500GB is just about the smallest, new-in-box drive you're likely to find and will cost you ~us$50-70. This is a terrible bargain when you can get 4x the capacity for ~1.5x the price, but if funds are limited...

=Smidge=

[Galacticruler]

Some important things:

what was the dead HDD's slot?

PCI Express X2/4/8/16?

or SATA #Gb/s

and what was the form factor?

Edited November 26, 2013 by Galacticruler

[TwoHedWlf]

My secondary 250 GB drive just potentially died right now, so do any one of you know a cheap high capacity disk that could be used for replacing this disk?

I wouldn't bother with anything less than about 2 TB. What I'd probably buy is a WD Green 3TB, inexpensive. Here it's only $190.

[Kryten]

It might be useful to specify where you are-or at least what country you're in.

[Galacticruler]

It might be useful to specify where you are-or at least what country you're in.

that too.

TENCHAR

[TheCanadianVendingMachine]

I got a three terrabyte hard drive for about 50$

[Galacticruler]

I got a three terrabyte hard drive for about 50$

nice.

but how good was it?

Also, am I the only person who feels that this should merge with the PC megathread?

[TheCanadianVendingMachine]

nice.

but how good was it?

-snip-

Very good, actually. Hasn't failed me yet. And hopefully won't...

[Galacticruler]

Very good, actually. Hasn't failed me yet. And hopefully won't...

depends on company, speed, age, useage, formatting, etc...

ANYWAY, I wonder if the OP will get back to us.

[Aghanim]

SATA 3 gb/s

Form factor doesn't matter

Cheap is like under $100 so the hopefully the pesky import tax wouldn't increase the price so much

[Galacticruler]

Cheap is like under $100 so the hopefully the pesky import tax wouldn't increase the price so much

wait, what is your nationality?