Buying spare HD (internal) - where ?

[THAILIBAN]

Can anyone give a recommendation where I can buy an inexpensive spare HD (160GB is enough) for an older laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad)?

I want to use it as a backup device, but the HD is now faulty after many years.

I do not want to order online, I want to buy it in a physical shop, where they (or the shop next door) hopefully installs the HD for me incl a genuine OS.

Fortune or dodgy Pantip comes to my mind, but which shop there does sell such items and can be trusted? Any other stand-alone location in BKK or PTY would be fine too.

Thanks

[jenny2017]

Go to any Advice shop, they are in all provinces. Cheap and good. 

[Crossy]

First question, is the drive PATA (lots of pins) or SATA (not many pins)?

 

If it's PATA you may not be able to get a new drive so you're limited to the places selling used. For a SATA drive any of the big names (eg Banana IT) in Fortune should be able to help. 

 

Check on the net if your machine has a drive size limit (you may not be able to get one as small as 160G).

 

EDIT If you have to go used it's worth a ride out to Zeer Rangsit (past Don Mueang airport). Five floors of IT stuff including loads of used kit, supposedly the largest IT mall in Asia. 

[THAILIBAN]

4 hours ago, Crossy said:

First question, is the drive PATA (lots of pins) or SATA (not many pins)?

 

If it's PATA you may not be able to get a new drive so you're limited to the places selling used. For a SATA drive any of the big names (eg Banana IT) in Fortune should be able to help. 

 

Check on the net if your machine has a drive size limit (you may not be able to get one as small as 160G).

 

EDIT If you have to go used it's worth a ride out to Zeer Rangsit (past Don Mueang airport). Five floors of IT stuff including loads of used kit, supposedly the largest IT mall in Asia. 

 

Thanks, I did not know that ZEER is such a massive IT Monster.

Certainly worth a try then, not only for that HD. The problem of course is which shops you can actually trust