500 Gb Toshiba Laptop Hard Drive $39.99

[Rich-M]

Toshiba 2.5in 500GB SATA III Internal Hard Drive PH2050U-1I54, 5400RPM, 8MB Cache.
Please note 3 year warranty....

Toshiba's notebook 2.5" Internal hard drives provide a convenient and reliable way to upgrade every major brand of notebook computer. We combine our proven and reliable hard drive technology with a Serial ATA interface to provide increased performance, capacity and compatibility.

Compatible with every major brand of Serial ATA enabled notebook computer, our hard drives use proven state of the art Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) technology, Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and TMR Head Recording technology for increased capacity, reliability and performance.

Features:

• Works with Serial ATA enabled notebook computer
• Read/Write cache for increased performance
• Low power consumption with adaptive power modes
• Internal shock sensor and ramp loading technology to help protect your drive
• 3 Year Limited Warranty
• Professional installation recommended

http://www.directron.com/ph2050u1i54.html

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

You must have been reading my mind, Rich. I just got two notebooks in this morning and they both have bad hard drives. Thanks!

 

[AWS]

I bought one of these a couple weeks ago to replace a bad hard drive on one of the employees laptop. I paid more than this. I might pick up a couple for spares.

 

[Rich-M]

Yeah that's the lowest I have seen even though they are coming down and these drives are decent as well.
My wholesaler had 3.5" drives for $42.99 but I could not put that up because you had to be a member but I have been
building with these for a while now. WD are still the best though but they only have 2 year warranty now also.

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

The black WD's still have the 5 year warranty on them. They are usually the only one I purchase.

http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp

 

[Rich-M]

Right as do the Raptors, the only drives I used for me for years until I got hooked on Ssd drives. I have never really seen any wear difference in any of the more expensive labels though as at some point or another I have used them all. Kind of like the race for 64 meg cache drives even though I can't see where the original 2 meg cache were any slower.