HD Purchase Advice (long story warning)

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Myth

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My mothers HD in her Dell Inspiron 1150, has taken a big crap.
She called Dell for a replacement, and they, with very broken English, said it would be $170 for a 60gb HD.

She does not want to pay that, so she took it to a local computer guy (hack), who "lost" her HD, and has no replacement. She has since, given me the task of getting her a replacement.

I looked around the net to find one, but quickly became confused, being that i know next to nothing about Hardware.
At the moment I have her using a live distro of slax, just to use the net, witch she hates with the fire of a thousand sun's.

We need a cheap (used/refurb is OK) HD, 20-60 gig, for a Dell Inspiron 1150.

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
 
Welcome to hardwareforums Myth :beer:

i have only checked newegg for you, but this is what i found:

Newegg.com - Computer Parts, PC Components, Laptop Computers, Digital Cameras and more!

I would suggest that you work out what drive is the best value for money... price divided by capacity = cost per GB, but also look at the cache memory (8mb is a ok size) and make sure that it is definetly a ATA drive that you buy and not a SATA drive (its the interface type, your mums laptop need a ATA drive)

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Dell Inspiron 1150 Specs. Laptops Specifications.
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Impy said:
Welcome to hardwareforums Myth :beer:

i have only checked newegg for you, but this is what i found:

Newegg.com - Computer Parts, PC Components, Laptop Computers, Digital Cameras and more!

I would suggest that you work out what drive is the best value for money... price divided by capacity = cost per GB, but also look at the cache memory (8mb is a ok size) and make sure that it is definetly a ATA drive that you buy and not a SATA drive (its the interface type, your mums laptop need a ATA drive)
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@ Impy that's what i was gunna say, but, without the 8Mb cache, always learning, thankies Impy

BTW: yeah, welcome to HWFs Myth
 
Wonderful! Thanks for filling in my blanks.
Also, i came a mouse click away from buying a SATA drive before i came here for help.

Thank you! and my mum says, hi.
 
Sorry guys, I guess this is a situation where it's best to pay-up......at least you'll have a working notebook ( check with Dell, this is true ). Any other route is fine if you know what you're doing, but trying to fix something like this is a route to unhappyness...IMHO.

However, good luck if you go the DIY route, which I suspect you will.
 
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