[Gllug] Where to buy hard drives [Summary]

[Andy Farnsworth]

Ok, I created a raw page with the information people replied with, you 
can see it at http://flash.stonedoor.com/uk_vendors.html. 

For the archives, here is the text version.

UK Computer Vendors
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Vendor                         
Site                                         Rating
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Overclockers UK    http://www.overclockers.co.uk/    *****
Komplett                 http://www.komplett.co.uk           ****
CCL                       http://www.cclonline.com              ****
NovaTech               http://www.novatech.co.uk           ****
Dabs                       http://www.dabs.co.uk                 ***
eBuyer                    http://www.ebuyer.com                ***
Aria                        http://www.aria.co.uk                   **
Scan                       http://www.scan.co.uk                  *

Rating System Explained
*****    Great Vendor, Good Website, Good Customer Service, and Good 
Return Experiences
****    Good Vendor
***    "Not Bad" or "Neutral" Vendor, No Bad Experiences
**    Bad Experiences, would only use this vendor again if they were the 
only ones who had the item
*    Terrible Experiences, "Not even if the last vendor on earth"

Disclaimer: this rating system is based on word of mouth experiences and 
may not reflect real life.

Andy

Andy Farnsworth wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>  I know this has been asked in many forms before, but I cannot seem to 
> find a good answer.  I am looking for a place to buy a pair of 300 GB 
> SATA hard drives.  For my needs SATA 150 or 300 will work fine and NCQ 
> support is not really needed.  From all the reviews it seems that no 
> drive today really needs the SATA 300 bandwidth and NCQ is better for 
> server loads with a fair amount of traffic but can actually lower 
> performance on a normal desktop system.  I know about Dabs and eBuyer 
> (and of course PCWorld) but what I am looking for is opinion on where 
> to buy as well as other sources besides those three.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy


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