our senior engineer says thats a good 1 for the price

yeah as long as its >=98 then you should be cool.

and DAYZEE is right IBM have had alot of problems and its worth going for maxtor, cheap and work! In my fileserver I got 2x 120GB and 20gb maxtor drives and they have been working fine, need to add another 120gb soon :(!

wat OS ? if its XP u'l alright with 120g - thats nothin

I wouldn't get the IBM, I'd go for a Maxtor. The IBM's are noisy and not very reliable.

cheers, ill get him 2 come round

its not 'what spec really', you can get a shitty mobo that has around a 600Mhz P3 chip in and it could support over 200gb drives! But if your mate is clued up enough he will know what to do if your computer doesnt like the drive, basically he will have to go the manufactures website of the motherboard, go to the support page and see if they have released a BIOS (embedded program which tells your computer pretty whats connected) update. If there is one, download it and flash (update) your current BIOS. Simple really :thumbs:

Good advice from Willay there, if ion doubt, don't touch it!! PC's are very temperamental and if you aint got a scoob, it will fuck you up!!

cheers willay, i ican get a mate 2 do tthe job 4 me....

wot specs would u say were resonable 2 support the 120gb hard drive?

Yes, pretty much a straight swap. Remember you used to have to partition them on certain OS, Win'95 for example couldn't handle anything larger than about 20Gb! It's all really straight forward though.
Oh, you could also just add it too the system, set you original as the Master disc and piggyback the seconsd off of it, set to Slave. This way you get extra storage, but keep all your existing stuff.
Hope this helps!! And yeah, seems reasonable enough. Try aria.co.uk (or .com, not sure which!). They do some good deals.

like i said get a mate to install it or someone you know who wont fuck you about, as long as you have the space inside the computer the guy/girl shouldnt charge you more then £20 or even a pint if your mate does it.

yeah thats ok, but first make sure,

you know how to install it.
you know that your computer (motherboard) can handle such a big drive.

check the following websites for badass prices:

www.scan.co.uk
www.dabs.com
www.ebuyer.com <- mad cheap.

If you dont know what you are doing then buy the drive and pay someone to put it in for you. If you got like 2 CDROMs (say DVDROM and CDRW) and 1 hard drive on your computer already you *Should* be able to add another hard drive without removing the 30gb one, this will avoid you having to reinstall/moving data about.

I wanna replace my hard-drive cos its like 30GB!
can i just buy new 1? n swap them over...

is this negood?

120GB IBM 7200RPM 2MB CACHE
7200RPM
more info

In-store Price: £89.00

Price: £78.73 Including VAT at 17.5%

cheers