[TriLUG] Laptop hard drive showdown: Hitachi vs Western Digital
Christopher L Merrill
chris at webperformance.com
Mon Feb 12 13:33:07 EST 2007
I'll second that, assuming you don't need the extra space. When I
upgraded my old T30 to a 7200rpm drive, it was like getting a new machine.
C
Ed Hill wrote:
> 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.
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