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chris_uk |
posted on 26th Nov 03 at 14:24 |
i remember wen a 13gb was £200! | |
antonOO2 |
posted on 26th Nov 03 at 14:04 |
its a 98 machine ,im goin to check the ret of the spec now | |
antonOO2 |
posted on 26th Nov 03 at 14:03 |
just took the old one out :lol:a 4gb seagate | |
mjw_2k2 |
posted on 26th Nov 03 at 14:01 |
best choice - get the 80gb and install xp then u got plenty space for woteva ur gonna use it for | |
mjw_2k2 |
posted on 26th Nov 03 at 14:00 |
bloody hell 80gb for £50? mad ye 2 years ago i paid that much for my 20gb hard drive!!! | |
paul_spurrell |
posted on 26th Nov 03 at 13:36 |
what spec is the PC? If its old may need to update the BIOS to take bigger disks | |
antonOO2 |
posted on 26th Nov 03 at 13:27 |
okay cheers mate | |
Dan B |
posted on 26th Nov 03 at 13:26 |
The 80Gb? Yeah, I'd say that's a decent enough price......and I've always trusted IBM as a decent brand of hard-drive. | |
antonOO2 |
posted on 26th Nov 03 at 13:23 |
think ill go for that one one then dan ,is that a good deal ? | |
Dan B |
posted on 26th Nov 03 at 13:22 |
It's not worth buying smaller than 80Gb, because the prices hardly come down at all the smaller you go under that......check the comparison: | |
antonOO2 |
posted on 26th Nov 03 at 13:21 |
yes i get what you mean chris .i dnt want to keep any thing on the machine .so should i just start from scratch ,get new HD and put xp on it instead of 98? | |
chris_uk |
posted on 26th Nov 03 at 13:21 |
quote: i would reccomend more like a 60Gb drive for wat you want to do.. are you runnin XP? | |
chris_uk |
posted on 26th Nov 03 at 13:19 |
depends how big.. anything less than 5gb isnt really worth using as a seperate hard disk. only thing i can reccomend is using it as a swap file. so you have | |
antonOO2 |
posted on 26th Nov 03 at 13:18 |
cheers guys ,the machine will be mainly for running dreamwever and fireworks and microsoft office .would a 20gb be big enough ? | |
Dan B |
posted on 26th Nov 03 at 13:17 |
82.3Gb IBM/HGST Deskstar 180GXP ATA-133 (7200rpm, 2MB Cache, 8.5ms) on a 1-year-warranty | |
Marc |
posted on 26th Nov 03 at 13:16 |
10gb? | |
antonOO2 |
posted on 26th Nov 03 at 13:13 |
on our second Pc the hard dive it very very small ,and i mean small .what would you guys recomend,not overly large. |