WTB: Your old IDE 2.5 hard drive

[Springfield]

Looking for a few 30-80 GB IDE 2.5-inch laptop drives.

If you upgraded and want a few bux for that small old Hitachi, Toshiba, or Fujitsu hard drive please send me a PM or email with your asking price.

[Springfield]

Or trade for parts. Need anything from a CF-27, CF-28. CF-29, or may be T2 or T4 series? Power adapter?

[Springfield]

Still looking .....

[pacman1213]

I have a few... some 40, 60 and i think i have an 80 as well but will need to check...
Im always looking for cf-28 parts... what do you have?

Andre

[Springfield]

Have several parts units and additional parts, so pretty much everything: chassis, motherboards (800 MHz), displays, keyboards, port covers, HD caddies, several batteries. Shoot me a PM with what you're most needing and some trade suggestions.

Thanks!
-Ken in FL

[DonTomio]

Still looking for hard drives? I have a CF-51. If you can tell me the proper hard drive to get for upgrade you can have the old one in exchange. It has a 60GB and I want to at least go to a 160GB or more. Please advise.
Thanks

[Pareto Optimal]

People usually recommend the Western Digital Blue 160GB or the Samsung 160GB both PATA, 2.5". Hitachi used to be popular. I believe the WD has been most popular of late.

160GB IDE PATA Hard Disk Drive 2.5" Laptop Hdd for Dell | eBay

Samsung Spinpoint M5 160GB 2.5" PATA-100 8MB Cache 5400 RPM Internal Notebook Hard Drive - HM160HC | SuperMediaStore.com

[Pareto Optimal]

I would recommend the WD 160GB. I believe they are most popular now for such upgrades. Hitachi used to be the most popular. I've had two Hitachi and one WD. A friend has a Hitachi. Mine are 40GB or smaller. My friend's is an 80GB. I think my WD runs quieter, cooler and maybe faster than my Hitachi or it just seems that way to me. I have not had Samsung PATA. I did have a Samsung SATA some years ago and I've used Samsung 3.5 SATA in desktops that I liked. You'll probably be just as happy with WD, Hitachi or Samsung. Going higher than 160GB would be a large increase in price unless price is not a factor for you. You only need enough room to hold your OS and APPS. You can always use external HDDs, thumbdrives and cloud storage as well as network connections to move data around between computers, long term storage and archiving.

I would be interested in your 60GB as I have a CF-51 Pentium-M without a HDD. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Shawn

[Springfield]

Still looking for hard drives? I have a CF-51. If you can tell me the proper hard drive to get for upgrade you can have the old one in exchange. It has a 60GB and I want to at least go to a 160GB or more. Please advise.
Thanks

The Western Digital that Pareto Optimal recommended is a good choice.

Would NOT recommend the Samsung. Those were my favorite drives until about 6-8 months ago. Then many people started reporting defects with new Samsung drives, something must have gone bad at the Samsung factory. Then they were bought by Seagate. I hate Seagate drives -- I've had more Seagate drives fail on me than all other brands put together.

You will be happy with the WD drive. And although I could use another PATA drive, if you're feeling generous and want to donate your old one it sounds like Pareto Optimal needs it more than me

[toughasnails]

So far I have had no problems with my Samsung drives in my CF-29 and 51's
Samsung drives below
HM160HC | eBay
and WD drives
WD 160GB pata | eBay
and here
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_saca...de+2.5&_sop=15