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2.5" sata drive

danb21t

danb21t

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Looking around at laptop drives, whats the best at the mo.
Always been a Seagate follower - had the least hassle with them
But recently purchased a couple of the 1tb Samsung F3's and they are very good so opened my eye up a bit to their products.

Anyway been looking at the ST9500420AS
http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-203-SE

Ideally around the 500gb mark, or whatever is the sweet spot £ per gb

Any info is great.

Dan
 
While I always get samsung 3.5's any 2.5 ive bought that isnt an SSD tends to be a WD scorpio blue/black depending on if i need the speed of the black or not.
For example:In a portable USB 2.0 drive you dont need the extra speed as it cant transfer that quickly anyway, but in a laptop you would want a 7200 drive if you can.
 
thanks for the replies chaps..

it probably will go in a 2.5" enclosure but the difference between the 5400rpm and 7200rpm is peanuts so was leaning towards the faster drive incase I decide to pop it in a laptop later on..
should have mentioned that I guess.

My father and I have always had bad experiences with WD, although a long time ago so may be a lot better now..
 
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Ive bought both the Momentus 7200.4 and the scorpio black,i sent the Momentus 7200.4 back as its very very noisy compared to the black.

The black is slightly faster i believe
 
Dan, I used to outright refuse to buy WD after how many of them would break in machines at a net cafe I helped out at, hence why I buy samsung on 3.5" drives, but for 2.5 there was nothing better at the time so I risked it and I havent had any problems with them any more, so I think they got better :)
 
Thanks for the input all, I have done some more research on other review sites and appears that the WD Scopio Black comes out on top for most of the tests.

With a 5 year warranty I'm going to order one up and give them a go! wish me luck lol
 
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