I've pretty much been enjoying my experience with this little netbook up until the hard drive decided to die. I've gone through all the tests you would normally do hoping I would somehow find a miracle and it would all start to work again. Alas, to no avail.

So I started looking for a replacement drive for this little machine and have found it to be a nightmare! Getting a piece for this machine in NZ is no easy task although a quick search online will find lots of information on such things.

After some hours searching, I realize that for what I want to do, there aren't many options. Either that or I fail at Google.

I do not wish to upgrade, though it would be nice, the price on some of the 32gb+ ssd drives that would fit a dell mini 9 are ridiculously expensive, to the point where even a "cheap" 32gb drive would cost half the price I paid for the damn netbook in the first place! And so then I decided to look for just a 8gb replacement job and cant find any at all :/

So to the point, does anyone out there know of a place I can go to or look at replacement drives for a dell inspiron mini 9?

Thanks.