Buying a used internal hard disk for laptop

@dealzeal wrote:

@krishan42933 You are suggesting desktop HDDs but he is looking for laptop HDD.

@Magus Rather than having such a low budget for a used hard disk, which will probably get you only a very old and extensively used piece — at the verge of failure, have you considered getting the original hard drive repaired? What went wrong with it in the first place?

@krishan42933 Have tweaked the title a bit for dumbos like you.

@DealSeeker wrote:

@Magus Rather than having such a low budget for a used hard disk, which will probably get you only a very old and extensively used piece — at the verge of failure, have you considered getting the original hard drive repaired? What went wrong with it in the first place?

And as I said in a post above, the value of the laptop itself is not more than 5-7K max. How much do you expect me to spend on an old horse?

@Magus wrote:

@krishan42933 Have tweaked the title a bit for dumbos like you.

@FeelMyL0Ve wrote:

he is looking for laptop, not desktop

sorry guys didnt read the title properly got too exited and suprised just after seeing my dear friend magus asking for help from dimers

@krishan42933 wrote:

sorry guys didnt read the title properly got too exited and suprised just after seeing my dear friend magus asking for help from dimers

@Magus wrote:

@DealSeeker wrote:

@Magus Rather than having such a low budget for a used hard disk, which will probably get you only a very old and extensively used piece — at the verge of failure, have you considered getting the original hard drive repaired? What went wrong with it in the first place?

Well, that was obviously the first step we took. The service guy said it’s dead beyond revival.

And as I said in a post above, the value of the laptop itself is not more than 5-7K max. How much do you expect me to spend on an old horse?

By the way, how much more you want to (or should) spend on the old horse depends on what work you still want to (or can) get out of that old horse.

@DealSeeker wrote:

I think you are undervaluing the laptop. If it has more than 1GB RAM, it can be sold for around 10K (depends on your city, of course).

By the way, how much more you want to (or should) spend on the old horse depends on what work you still want to (or can) get out of that old horse.

@Magus wrote:

@DealSeeker wrote:

I think you are undervaluing the laptop. If it has more than 1GB RAM, it can be sold for around 10K (depends on your city, of course).

By the way, how much more you want to (or should) spend on the old horse depends on what work you still want to (or can) get out of that old horse.

Well, this is my final try. If nothing works out, will go for a new 500GB HD or an SSD as suggested by a dimer via PM.

@Magus wrote:

bro, let me check with my friend and will let u know, he had one spare hard disk, recently he upgraded to 1tb from 80 or 160 am not sure… lets make a deal

@DealSeeker wrote:

I think you are undervaluing the laptop. If it has more than 1GB RAM, it can be sold for around 10K (depends on your city, of course).

By the way, how much more you want to (or should) spend on the old horse depends on what work you still want to (or can) get out of that old horse.

I don’t think so. That too for a 10-yr old laptop without an HDD. If one spends 4k more, they can get a new one though may be low-end but will perform better than the old laptop.

@dealzeal wrote:

@DealSeeker wrote:

I think you are undervaluing the laptop. If it has more than 1GB RAM, it can be sold for around 10K (depends on your city, of course).

By the way, how much more you want to (or should) spend on the old horse depends on what work you still want to (or can) get out of that old horse.

I don’t think so. That too for a 10-yr old laptop without an HDD. If one spends 4k more, they can get a new one though may be low-end but will perform better than the old laptop.

@FeelMyL0Ve wrote:

@Magus wrote:

bro, let me check with my friend and will let u know, he had one spare hard disk, recently he upgraded to 1tb from 80 or 160 am not sure… lets make a deal

@Magus wrote:

https://m.ebay.in/itm/Toshiba-40GB-SATA-5400RPM...

40GB at 600! Mfg. year 2006! Is it any good?

@abcwevr762 wrote:

@Magus wrote:

https://m.ebay.in/itm/Toshiba-40GB-SATA-5400RPM...

40GB at 600! Mfg. year 2006! Is it any good?

U might not even need a harddisk . Puppy Linux will boot happily from a USB drive or DVD/CD drive. It does nt need a HDD at all. Once booted it runs entirely in RAM! Hence blazing fast. Not even the fasted NVMe PCI-E SSDs come close. If your needs are modest it will work great. Chrome/Firefox, VLC, M-Player, Libre Office, Transmission or Vuze bittorrent clients etc are all available from a centralised repository. And at shutdown/reboot you can save state by using a save file on the same boot media. As long as your PC has atleast 512MB RAM you are good to go. Even a 2GB pen drive will suffice(higher capacity 8GB drive is recommended for better performance and endurance). Latest Puppies use F2FS to maximise NAND Flash endurance. Or a single DVD but it will take longer to write the save files and to access them at boot times. Slacko Puppy 6.30 is a great choice. Learning curve is pretty benign. Most of the drivers for a lot of hardware are built right in.

Well, I will need a tech dictionary even to understand most of what you have written.

I’m a noob in such technical things.

CC @dealzeal

@Magus wrote:

@abcwevr762 wrote:

@Magus wrote:

https://m.ebay.in/itm/Toshiba-40GB-SATA-5400RPM...

40GB at 600! Mfg. year 2006! Is it any good?

U might not even need a harddisk . Puppy Linux will boot happily from a USB drive or DVD/CD drive. It does nt need a HDD at all. Once booted it runs entirely in RAM! Hence blazing fast. Not even the fasted NVMe PCI-E SSDs come close. If your needs are modest it will work great. Chrome/Firefox, VLC, M-Player, Libre Office, Transmission or Vuze bittorrent clients etc are all available from a centralised repository. And at shutdown/reboot you can save state by using a save file on the same boot media. As long as your PC has atleast 512MB RAM you are good to go. Even a 2GB pen drive will suffice(higher capacity 8GB drive is recommended for better performance and endurance). Latest Puppies use F2FS to maximise NAND Flash endurance. Or a single DVD but it will take longer to write the save files and to access them at boot times. Slacko Puppy 6.30 is a great choice. Learning curve is pretty benign. Most of the drivers for a lot of hardware are built right in.

Thanks a lot for taking time to write here.

Well, I will need a tech dictionary even to understand most of what you have written.

I’m a noob in such technical things.

CC @dealzeal

@Magus wrote:

@abcwevr762 wrote:

@Magus wrote:

https://m.ebay.in/itm/Toshiba-40GB-SATA-5400RPM...

40GB at 600! Mfg. year 2006! Is it any good?

U might not even need a harddisk . Puppy Linux will boot happily from a USB drive or DVD/CD drive. It does nt need a HDD at all. Once booted it runs entirely in RAM! Hence blazing fast. Not even the fasted NVMe PCI-E SSDs come close. If your needs are modest it will work great. Chrome/Firefox, VLC, M-Player, Libre Office, Transmission or Vuze bittorrent clients etc are all available from a centralised repository. And at shutdown/reboot you can save state by using a save file on the same boot media. As long as your PC has atleast 512MB RAM you are good to go. Even a 2GB pen drive will suffice(higher capacity 8GB drive is recommended for better performance and endurance). Latest Puppies use F2FS to maximise NAND Flash endurance. Or a single DVD but it will take longer to write the save files and to access them at boot times. Slacko Puppy 6.30 is a great choice. Learning curve is pretty benign. Most of the drivers for a lot of hardware are built right in.

Thanks a lot for taking time to write here.

Well, I will need a tech dictionary even to understand most of what you have written.

I’m a noob in such technical things.

CC @dealzeal

LOL. I understand. That’s why I asked basic questions without giving too many details.

@abcwevr762 wrote:

@Magus wrote:

@abcwevr762 wrote:

@Magus wrote:

https://m.ebay.in/itm/Toshiba-40GB-SATA-5400RPM...

40GB at 600! Mfg. year 2006! Is it any good?

U might not even need a harddisk . Puppy Linux will boot happily from a USB drive or DVD/CD drive. It does nt need a HDD at all. Once booted it runs entirely in RAM! Hence blazing fast. Not even the fasted NVMe PCI-E SSDs come close. If your needs are modest it will work great. Chrome/Firefox, VLC, M-Player, Libre Office, Transmission or Vuze bittorrent clients etc are all available from a centralised repository. And at shutdown/reboot you can save state by using a save file on the same boot media. As long as your PC has atleast 512MB RAM you are good to go. Even a 2GB pen drive will suffice(higher capacity 8GB drive is recommended for better performance and endurance). Latest Puppies use F2FS to maximise NAND Flash endurance. Or a single DVD but it will take longer to write the save files and to access them at boot times. Slacko Puppy 6.30 is a great choice. Learning curve is pretty benign. Most of the drivers for a lot of hardware are built right in.

Thanks a lot for taking time to write here.

Well, I will need a tech dictionary even to understand most of what you have written.

I’m a noob in such technical things.

CC @dealzeal

Puppy Linux is noob-proof! Burn the Puppy flavour of your choice to a pen drive(UNetbootin/Universal USB Creator) or dvd(any dvd burning software). It will boot automatically into Linux desktop. Right-click menu has Puppy Package manager. Install desired apps. At shutdown it will automatically prompt to save state. Choose ‘Yes’. Your Linux experience is complete. Its no different than installing Windows but simpler
as one does nt hv to mess around with partitions and stuff.
If you are willing to try I can post a how-to-video detailing the few steps needed. Trust me its really easy. I have a copy of Puppy in all my pen drives in case Windows goes belly up or the HDD acts up. I use it in cyber café and my college library as it helps to get by with horribly underpowered hardware, afflicted with malware. @Magus Puppy is very lightweight ranging from 50-200MB.

@Magus wrote:

@abcwevr762 wrote:

@Magus wrote:

@abcwevr762 wrote:

@Magus wrote:

https://m.ebay.in/itm/Toshiba-40GB-SATA-5400RPM...

40GB at 600! Mfg. year 2006! Is it any good?

U might not even need a harddisk . Puppy Linux will boot happily from a USB drive or DVD/CD drive. It does nt need a HDD at all. Once booted it runs entirely in RAM! Hence blazing fast. Not even the fasted NVMe PCI-E SSDs come close. If your needs are modest it will work great. Chrome/Firefox, VLC, M-Player, Libre Office, Transmission or Vuze bittorrent clients etc are all available from a centralised repository. And at shutdown/reboot you can save state by using a save file on the same boot media. As long as your PC has atleast 512MB RAM you are good to go. Even a 2GB pen drive will suffice(higher capacity 8GB drive is recommended for better performance and endurance). Latest Puppies use F2FS to maximise NAND Flash endurance. Or a single DVD but it will take longer to write the save files and to access them at boot times. Slacko Puppy 6.30 is a great choice. Learning curve is pretty benign. Most of the drivers for a lot of hardware are built right in.

Thanks a lot for taking time to write here.

Well, I will need a tech dictionary even to understand most of what you have written.

I’m a noob in such technical things.

CC @dealzeal

Puppy Linux is noob-proof! Burn the Puppy flavour of your choice to a pen drive(UNetbootin/Universal USB Creator) or dvd(any dvd burning software). It will boot automatically into Linux desktop. Right-click menu has Puppy Package manager. Install desired apps. At shutdown it will automatically prompt to save state. Choose ‘Yes’. Your Linux experience is complete. Its no different than installing Windows but simpler
as one does nt hv to mess around with partitions and stuff.
If you are willing to try I can post a how-to-video detailing the few steps needed. Trust me its really easy. I have a copy of Puppy in all my pen drives in case Windows goes belly up or the HDD acts up. I use it in cyber café and my college library as it helps to get by with horribly underpowered hardware, afflicted with malware. @Magus Puppy is very lightweight ranging from 50-200MB.

The way you write it makes me curious about this puppy. Please share the video. Thanks. +KG.

@abcwevr762 wrote:

@Magus wrote:

@abcwevr762 wrote:

@Magus wrote:

@abcwevr762 wrote:

@Magus wrote:

https://m.ebay.in/itm/Toshiba-40GB-SATA-5400RPM...

40GB at 600! Mfg. year 2006! Is it any good?

U might not even need a harddisk . Puppy Linux will boot happily from a USB drive or DVD/CD drive. It does nt need a HDD at all. Once booted it runs entirely in RAM! Hence blazing fast. Not even the fasted NVMe PCI-E SSDs come close. If your needs are modest it will work great. Chrome/Firefox, VLC, M-Player, Libre Office, Transmission or Vuze bittorrent clients etc are all available from a centralised repository. And at shutdown/reboot you can save state by using a save file on the same boot media. As long as your PC has atleast 512MB RAM you are good to go. Even a 2GB pen drive will suffice(higher capacity 8GB drive is recommended for better performance and endurance). Latest Puppies use F2FS to maximise NAND Flash endurance. Or a single DVD but it will take longer to write the save files and to access them at boot times. Slacko Puppy 6.30 is a great choice. Learning curve is pretty benign. Most of the drivers for a lot of hardware are built right in.

Thanks a lot for taking time to write here.

Well, I will need a tech dictionary even to understand most of what you have written.

I’m a noob in such technical things.

CC @dealzeal

Puppy Linux is noob-proof! Burn the Puppy flavour of your choice to a pen drive(UNetbootin/Universal USB Creator) or dvd(any dvd burning software). It will boot automatically into Linux desktop. Right-click menu has Puppy Package manager. Install desired apps. At shutdown it will automatically prompt to save state. Choose ‘Yes’. Your Linux experience is complete. Its no different than installing Windows but simpler
as one does nt hv to mess around with partitions and stuff.
If you are willing to try I can post a how-to-video detailing the few steps needed. Trust me its really easy. I have a copy of Puppy in all my pen drives in case Windows goes belly up or the HDD acts up. I use it in cyber café and my college library as it helps to get by with horribly underpowered hardware, afflicted with malware. @Magus Puppy is very lightweight ranging from 50-200MB.

The way you write it makes me curious about this puppy. Please share the video. Thanks. +KG.

Will a few hours delay make any difference? I am in the middle of down/up grading from Windows 10 to Windows 7. Gotta backup lotta stuff onto dog-slow(but reliable) Sandisk pen drives. In the meantime could you post your PC specs or model in case of laptop please? That will help to narrow down the best Puppy for your use case. I hope you do understand that the Windows softwares will not work in Linux but there exist identical alternatives.

@Magus first tell y u need a 2nd laptop for, which cant be done on primary one

@Magus wrote:

@DealSeeker wrote:

I think you are undervaluing the laptop. If it has more than 1GB RAM, it can be sold for around 10K (depends on your city, of course).

By the way, how much more you want to (or should) spend on the old horse depends on what work you still want to (or can) get out of that old horse.

Well, this is my final try. If nothing works out, will go for a new 500GB HD or an SSD as suggested by a dimer via PM.

i was abt suggest ssd but thought the 10 year old hardware would completely support it not. will it? @DealSeeker

@rajrocks wrote:

@Magus first tell y u need a 2nd laptop for, which cant be done on primary one

@rajrocks wrote:

i was abt suggest ssd but thought the 10 year old hardware would completely support it not. will it? @DealSeeker

@rajrocks wrote:

@Magus wrote:

@DealSeeker wrote:

I think you are undervaluing the laptop. If it has more than 1GB RAM, it can be sold for around 10K (depends on your city, of course).

By the way, how much more you want to (or should) spend on the old horse depends on what work you still want to (or can) get out of that old horse.

Well, this is my final try. If nothing works out, will go for a new 500GB HD or an SSD as suggested by a dimer via PM.

i was abt suggest ssd but thought the 10 year old hardware would completely support it not. will it? @DealSeeker

@Magus wrote:

@rajrocks wrote:

@Magus first tell y u need a 2nd laptop for, which cant be done on primary one

Who told you I got another laptop?

if thats the case then y not get a new one in exchange for the old one. u will get better exchange value vs the standalone sell off

@DealSeeker wrote:

@rajrocks wrote:

@Magus wrote:

@DealSeeker wrote:

I think you are undervaluing the laptop. If it has more than 1GB RAM, it can be sold for around 10K (depends on your city, of course).

By the way, how much more you want to (or should) spend on the old horse depends on what work you still want to (or can) get out of that old horse.

Well, this is my final try. If nothing works out, will go for a new 500GB HD or an SSD as suggested by a dimer via PM.

i was abt suggest ssd but thought the 10 year old hardware would completely support it not. will it? @DealSeeker

As long as his laptop has a SATA port, there wouldn’t be any issue.

@rajrocks wrote:

@Magus wrote:

@rajrocks wrote:

@Magus first tell y u need a 2nd laptop for, which cant be done on primary one

Who told you I got another laptop?

if thats the case then y not get a new one in exchange for the old one. u will get better exchange value vs the standalone sell off

@abcwevr762 wrote:

@DealSeeker wrote:

@rajrocks wrote:

@Magus wrote:

@DealSeeker wrote:

I think you are undervaluing the laptop. If it has more than 1GB RAM, it can be sold for around 10K (depends on your city, of course).

By the way, how much more you want to (or should) spend on the old horse depends on what work you still want to (or can) get out of that old horse.

Well, this is my final try. If nothing works out, will go for a new 500GB HD or an SSD as suggested by a dimer via PM.

i was abt suggest ssd but thought the 10 year old hardware would completely support it not. will it? @DealSeeker

As long as his laptop has a SATA port, there wouldn’t be any issue.

Since its 10 years old its likely SATA-I which will mean even a 4-5 year old SSD will run at severely curtailed speeds. Still way, way better than any HDD though in terms of Random I/O which ultimately defines the user experience. So yeah SSD definitely.

+ buying old hdd where there are high chances of failing in few months can be avoided by getting lowest old used ssd. but in 1000 bucks is way too less for old used ssd. increasev a bit n get the lowest one. also the performance would be better than hdd.

@DealSeeker wrote:

@thrifty_indian wrote:

Off-topic: Is selling hardware still ‘legal’ on DD? I am selling 3×4GB DDR3 RAM modules from transcend at Rs.1200/piece. The RAMs are brand new and in original box.

Link to Newegg/Amazon/Flipkart for full specs, especially for the latency and clock speeds of the chips?

My listing on erodov
http://www.erodov.com/forums/transcend-4gb-ram-...