On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:01:46 -0500 "Tanner Lovelace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am in the market for a new hard drive for my laptop. The two > contenders seem to be > > * HITACHI Travelstar 5K160 160GB SATA 5400rpm[1] > * Western Digital Scorpio 160GB SATA 5400rpm[2] > > So, since they're both mostly the same, I'd like to hear if people > have experience between Hitachi and Western Digital. In other > words, which one do you think will be more reliable? Which one > would you buy?
Hi Tanner, Have you run any benchmarks comparing the 5400 and 7200 rpm notebook disks? I have and the 5400's are dramatically slower. So my answer would be "neither". I'd get a 100GB 7200rpm disk from either Hitachi or Seagate -- both of which have been quite reliable on the dozen-plus machines that my friends and cow-orkers use which have those drives. But that's just my opinion. Perhaps you have a really pressing need for the additional 60GB...? Ed -- Edward H. Hill III, PhD | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://eh3.com/
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