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Hi all,

Well my 3-week-old WD Scorpio 250 kept clicking and giving seek errors so I decided to return it.

I'm now looking for a 200GB, 7200rpm, 16MB cache 2.5" SATA disk for my X61s... with one catch: I'm in the UK and they seem impossible to find! I'm specifically looking for the Hitachi 7k200 200GB, but would probably settle for the Maxtor 7200.2.

Examples:
this
http://www.mediaatlantic.com/product.php/135813/1383/
http://www.digital-fusion.co.uk/Inu_pro ... f=24652684
http://www.kikatek.com/product_info.php ... ce=froogle

Does anybody know why there seems to be such a shortage, or have any advice as to where I can get one of these disks in the next couple of days?

It makes me mad to see it for $214.99 at newegg! [censored] UK!

Thanks,
Steve

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Thanks... but sadly out of stock too!

In the end I went for the Hitachi 5400 250GB 5K250. I want to get the box installed fully on Friday, and 5400 will probably be enough anyway!

Thats a shame. There were 4 in stock when I posted.

Make sure you don't order the wrong one like I did. The faster one is the one with 3GB transfer rate and the slower one is the one with 1.5GB transfer rate. Most out there now are Sata 1 with 1.5 GB transfer rate and not the 3Gb transfer rate. Double the difference...

The story has a twist! I got back from work today to find a voicemail from the company telling me they'd sold out of the 5400 disk I ordered - so I cancelled the order...

Then I found that Overclockers now have the 7200.2 200GB Momentus, http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =HD-140-SE

I hope somebody else finds that useful...

Regards,
Steve

stylinexpat wrote:Make sure you don't order the wrong one like I did. The faster one is the one with 3GB transfer rate and the slower one is the one with 1.5GB transfer rate. Most out there now are Sata 1 with 1.5 GB transfer rate and not the 3Gb transfer rate. Double the difference...

This is only a theoretical maximum. Laptop hard drives have yet to break 100 megabytes per second (800 megabits per second), and most 5400 rpm drives won't go above 50 megabytes per second. This is nowhere close to saturating 1500 megabits per second that SATA150 ("SATA I") has to offer.

steve-oo wrote:
Then I found that Overclockers now have the 7200.2 200GB Momentus, http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =HD-140-SE

I hope somebody else finds that useful...

Thanks for the pointer. I have just purchased the same and for a lot less than I was prepared to pay for purchasing from the US.

Just a FYI
Komplett has the 7k200 200GB disk at £140. And it says they have over 50 in stock. Though keep in mind if that is sent through their Norwegian warehouse they are replacing most of the people right now with robots so every order is delayed...

Cobos

andrewb wrote:

steve-oo wrote:

Thanks for the pointer. I have just purchased the same and for a lot less than I was prepared to pay for purchasing from the US.

I have just now installed one of these drives in my T60, using Acronis. It took less than an hour, no blue screen problems nor, indeed problems of any kind. Hardest part was remembering where I put my scewdriver. Don't know if I have just been lucky but it really could not have been any more straightfroward, and I am a technical cretin when it comes to these things usually.

Hi.
I'm looking for the Hitachi 7K200 20 GB hard drive but I'm unable to find any store that would deliver it to Slovenia (Europe).

Does anybody know of any store that delivers Europe-wide, please?

zee