Apologies for the lack of bargains for much of last week - the entire Cheapo Computers team (yes, that's one person) was incapacitated by a hideous, stinky cold, that left us more concerned with the price of Lemsip than computer peripherals. We're back today, though, with a brilliant bargain for desktop PC owners: an extremely fast 500GB hard disk that's selling for just over half the usual price.

Adding a new, larger hard disk to a desktop PC is one of the easiest and most worthwhile upgrades you can perform, and this 500GB Seagate Barracuda drive will add enough room for thousands of photos or music files for less than £40. It's also a speedy model with 16GB of cache memory, so it'll perform well whether you're working with huge video files or the pesky small files that can slow things down when performing backups.

The RRP for this disk is £65, but we've found a store selling them for just £36 - click the jump for details.