Internal would work just fine. I've seen hd's cost £30 each with 80gb storage, but I don't really need that much. Thats why I'm asking around for used ones. The more money I can save the better. I am a student after all :).
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Douglas Nisbet</b> <<a href="mailto:dougie@highmoor.co.uk">dougie@highmoor.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I've been using a couple of 160GB seagates for some time and since<br>they're running well I decided to see how much they were currently
<br>costing. I was a bit surprised to see they're only 40 quid each<br><a href="http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=3W4F">http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=3W4F</a>. Does it have to be<br>external? I've probably got an old internal IDE drive that I don't need.
<br><br>Dougie<br><br><br>Aleksander Helgaker wrote:<br>> Currently looking into getting an external hard drive to install Linux<br>> on. I use windows quite a bit (don't kill me :) ) and I've never liked<br>> running windows and Linux of the same hd as I think it's much easier
<br>> to maintain if they have each their hd. Especially seeing as I<br>> sometimes chose to reinstall windows or upgrade to a new edition in<br>> which case the mbr get rewritten to use the windows boot loader.<br>
> Therefore I'm in search of a cheap hd to install Linux on. I don't<br>> need much storage space as I won't be using it for things like music<br>> and video, etc. So I was wondering if anyone has any hd's lying around
<br>> which they don't use anymore which they would be willing to part with<br>> for a price. If it's a usb based external drive that would be perfect,<br>> if not I'll just buy a an enclosure for it (what do they cost in
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