Best Internal HDD for $40-50?

[Coastaltuba]

I don't really need a huge one, but if you can find one, that would be great. This is for a desktop computer.

 

[tecmo34]

Hard to beat the Seagate 500 GB SATA III drive at under $40... but don't be fooled with the SATA III tag, as it won't run near those speeds. It is a perfect SATA II drive at it's price range.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148701

 

[Coastaltuba]

Yeah, I keep seeing that one, I just keep getting scared away by forums calling it crap.

 

[tecmo34]

Seagate has a bad taste in most people's mouth do to the issues with their 7200.11 drives. They have seemed to improve with the 7200.12 & newer drives. I would recommend the Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB but it is out of your price range

 

[Coastaltuba]

That's the one I had originally had, but it jumped back up to over $55. Made me mad.

 

[Coastaltuba]

Best answer selected by Coastaltuba.