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Need a laptop hard drive recommendation - M A V I C - 10-22-2009
I'm pulling the SSD out of my laptop and putting it in my tower. I was thinking of putting the original HD back in but it seems kinda slow now. I know no traditional HD is going to be as fast as a SSD, but I'd still like to speed things up a bit over the stock Fujitsu 120GB 5400rpm drive. It looks like tests on it show it maxes out around 39MB/s.
I'm looking at the Seagate Momentus 5400.6 320GB drive, but haven't found any tests with it. It's $50 at newegg. I want at least a 120GB drive.
Thanks
Re: Need a laptop hard drive recommendation - mattkime - 10-22-2009
larger drive = faster. 500GB WD Scorpio Blue.
Re: Need a laptop hard drive recommendation - M A V I C - 10-22-2009
Yeah, I know platter density helps. Just trying to figure out by how much. The 500GB WD Scorpio Blue is $90... $40 more than the 320GB Seagate.
Re: Need a laptop hard drive recommendation - Filliam H. Muffman - 10-22-2009
Just making sure... http://barefeats.com/note05.html
Someone found a test result in an ebay auction.
Re: Need a laptop hard drive recommendation - hal - 10-22-2009
the seagate pushes to almost 100MB/s - I've been very pleased
Re: Need a laptop hard drive recommendation - tahoedrew - 10-22-2009
M A V I C wrote:
Yeah, I know platter density helps. Just trying to figure out by how much. The 500GB WD Scorpio Blue is $90... $40 more than the 320GB Seagate.
huh, $90?! I bought my WD 500GB Blue drive for $80 a few months ago, I'd guess you could find it in the $70-range somewhere by now.
~A
Re: Need a laptop hard drive recommendation - Filliam H. Muffman - 10-22-2009
tahoedrew wrote:
[quote=M A V I C]
Yeah, I know platter density helps. Just trying to figure out by how much. The 500GB WD Scorpio Blue is $90... $40 more than the 320GB Seagate.
huh, $90?! I bought my WD 500GB Blue drive for $80 a few months ago, I'd guess you could find it in the $70-range somewhere by now.
Was that a Dell sale? It might be on sale for that again if you can wait a couple of weeks.
Re: Need a laptop hard drive recommendation - M A V I C - 10-22-2009
I checked barefeats but there haven't been much in the way of 2.5" drives lately
hal wrote:
the seagate pushes to almost 100MB/s - I've been very pleased
The Seagate Momentus 5400.6 320GB model?
Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
[quote=tahoedrew]
[quote=M A V I C]
Yeah, I know platter density helps. Just trying to figure out by how much. The 500GB WD Scorpio Blue is $90... $40 more than the 320GB Seagate.
huh, $90?! I bought my WD 500GB Blue drive for $80 a few months ago, I'd guess you could find it in the $70-range somewhere by now.
Was that a Dell sale? It might be on sale for that again if you can wait a couple of weeks.
I'm curious to know if that's a dell deal as well.
http://computers.pricegrabber.com/hard-drives/western+digital+scorpio+blue+500/p/11/form_keyword=western+digital+scorpio+blue+500/st=sort/sortby=priceA
http://www.google.com/products?client=safari&rls=en&q=western%20digital%20scorpio%20blue%20500&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wf