It is not necessarily that expensive to replace an internal hard drive in terms of actual cost. However, it requires some skill to properly install an internal hard drive and may be costly to have a professional perform the installation.
Replacing a hard drive can cost anywhere between $20 to $200 or more, it depends on where the repair is being done including the vendor and where their located at, ask in person to know a specific pricing.
The hard drive, the optical drive and usually memory are the easiest components to replace. Of the three, the optical drive is probably the easiest... usually one screw.
That 128GB drive is actually an SSD not a Hard Drive and no it isn't possible to replace the internal drive in a mac
About a decade ago, buying a 250gb hard drive was very expensive. Now you can buy one for usually $60. This depends on whether or not it is an external or internal hard drive. Usually the portable external ones are the most affordable. You can find them at Best Buy, Fry's Electronics, Amazon, eBay and Newegg.
You want to get to Salt Lake City which usually has cheap internal flight and then rent a car and drive about 4-5hrs. You can also fly to Jackson Hole, but usually it's expensive Basically London to major US city(Boston, New York, Philly, etc, then internal transfer for flight to SLC.
not really that expensive, all you have to remove is the main drive belt and the balancer.. i charge about 150.
Internal Drive
Most modern laptops do not have space for a floppy drive internally, so this is impossible on them. If you have an old laptop that has space for a floppy drive internally, it probably already has one so you don't need to install one. However if that existing internal floppy drive has failed you will have to replace it (assuming you can find a floppy drive to replace it with). To replace the existing internal floppy drive you will need the manufacturer's documents on how to open the laptop's case, get access to the floppy drive, and swap out the old one and replace it with the new one. This will almost certainly require special tools (e.g. torx drivers, wrenches) that you don't already have and will need to buy if you don't already frequently do such work.
Many people that inherited their fortune usually drive expensive vehicles while people that earned their fortune normally drive economy vehicles.
I am not sure why the Anki Drive is expensive. This is a game.
Changes are that it's a fan and not the hard drive. However, if it is the hard drive, chances that the internal bearings are going bad. I'd replace the drive and transfer the contents as soon as possible, before the drive completely crashes.
This hard drive has a 100Gb internal cache.
The default label for a internal hard drive is the serial number.