WD Scorpio 250GB 5.4k versus Hitachi 200GB 7.2k performance?

Curious to know which of these two hard drives outperforms the other, and if so, which one does it outperform and by how much?

The HDD's in question are:

HITACHI Travelstar 7K200 HTS722020K9SA00 and Western Digital Scorpio WD2500BEVS.

Hitachi model is 7,200RPM, 200GB, 16MB cache
Western Digital model is 5,400RPM, 250GB, 8MB cache

 

The Hitachi is faster. But for $600 more, you can get a super fast 32GB drive.

 

I don't think you will see a noticable performance difference. WD $50 cheaper and 50GB's larger kind of tempting.

 

I think this has been discussed here before, you can use a search function. I think you might see around 5% increase in performance on one over the other in most cases.

 

5% faster, costs 30% more and is 20% smaller. That is why it is a tuff decision.

 

Well, you know your needs, and you know the tools. It's all up to you. Or you can experience a whole new thing, with 32GB superfast ssd as I suggested.

On another note, I think somebody here used a 146GB 2.5" savvio (seagate SCSI), probably using a SAS to SATA converter. Not sure whether it's good for your notebook or not, but if it works well, could be much faster setup.