Best Hard drive for my Latitude

I want to replace the 60gb that came in my Latitude with a larger one; I saw the "Western Digital Scorpio Black WD3200BEKT 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive - OEM" and the "Seagate Momentus 7200.3 ST9320421AS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive (Bare drive) - OEM"
Which one do you recommend I get?

 

I would highly recommend the WD drive. The Seagate drive is a good one, but Seagate has been suffering from a lack of quality and recently lowered their drive warranties to 3 years so I'm not too sure about them anymore.

 

Which Latitude? Older ones use PATA HDDs, newer ones SATA.

To be sure, look up the model numer of your current HDD in Device Manager and then check the specs.

John

 

Greg, I see your point; WD warranty is 5 years vs 3 years for Seagate.

John, my Latitude is the D620 and the current drive is the Hitachi 60 GB Serial ATA 1.5 Gb/s 2.5" Disk Drive, That is the SATA right?

 

yea, dont go for the seagate, i had 2 replacements, they both make a heck of a lot of noise.

i've got the samsung spinpoint 250gb 7200rpm one, im pleasantly surprised cos it performs well and its very quiet

cant comment on WD or hitachi, i havent tried the current crop. i notice no one mentioned hitachi, why? have they become crappy recently? cos i remember on my last notebook it was the fastest drive available

 

Serial ATA = SATA. The D620 should be able to handle any of the current products. I'm currently using the WD5000BEVT and I've been quite impressed by it.

Hitachi is another main player. Fujitsu HDD development seems to be stagnating. You can compare most of the 2.5" HDDs at Tom's Hardware.

John

 

I'd definitely second the WD drives.
As a nice benefit, they seem to run a couple degrees cooler than just about any other platter'ed drive out there.

 

Western Digital definately has the quality and reliability edge over Seagate these days.


John uses the 500GB WD5000BEVT Blue series 5400rpm drive and likes it very much.

I installed the 320GB WD3200BEKT Black series 7200rpm model and have been very impressed with it's great performance. For a 7200 rpm drive, it never runs hot, it's quiet and I'm getting just under 5hrs of battery life on an E6500 with it.

Both great choices.

 

I have a Fujitsu, 7200rpm, and it's dead silent and fast.

 

I'm going to replace the stock drive in my Inspiron 1520. Primarily looked at these drives so far:

WD5000BEVT - Western Digital 500GB 5,400 RPM: Performance per watt is lower than the competition. Heck, power consumption is just good compared to the competition and so that logically means less heat and better battery life. Performance is excellent and competes well with the 7,200 RPM drives but reasonably isn't as good.

ST9320421AS - Seagate 320GB 7,200 RPM: Awesome performance but not too bad on the power consumption really.

However, an important factor for me is noise and it is very difficult to get good information on this. The reviews on the Seagate drive are full of both "no noise" and "too much noise and vibration."

Absolute performance isn't critical for me, but too much heat or noise put a drive out of the running. Tom's hardware has great information on power (heat) but it is very hard to find reliable information on noise.

Anyone here compared drives themselves?