Best HDD?

Dr House · 19 Feb 2008 at 16:57

Hi, can anyone tell me which is the best 7200 rpm drive on the market? around 200GB would be nice.

7k200, Seagate Momentus 7200.2?

farooqm · 19 Feb 2008 at 18:25

Of those two the 7k200 is faster.

Just purchased a 320Gb Samsung Spinpoint M6 Model: HM320JI - 5400rpm
This is supposed to as quick as the 200GB Hitachi 7k200 7200rpm drive except in access times which it's marginally slower.... (I can live with that for the extra drive space).

Now I'm just waiting for my M1530 laptop to arrive so I test it (Dell have said Mon 25th)..

Matrix · 19 Feb 2008 at 21:55

farooqm said:
Of those two the 7k200 is faster.

Just purchased a 320Gb Samsung Spinpoint M6 Model: HM320JI - 5400rpm
This is supposed to as quick as the 200GB Hitachi 7k200 7200rpm drive except in access times which it's marginally slower.... (I can live with that for the extra drive space).

Now I'm just waiting for my M1530 laptop to arrive so I test it (Dell have said Mon 25th)..

You using that instead of the the one Dell supply? Or are you planning on running it along side another hard drive? If so where did you get the hard drive case from to put in the Dell laptop?

Thanks

farooqm · 20 Feb 2008 at 11:22

Matrix said:
You using that instead of the the one Dell supply? Or are you planning on running it along side another hard drive? If so where did you get the hard drive case from to put in the Dell laptop?

Thanks

I'm going to be replacing the 250Gb one that comes with the laptop with this 320Gb Samsung.

I already have a WD Passport 2.5" enclosure this currently has a 160Gb Fujitsu hard drive which clocks up 30MB/s in HDTune and that's through the USB interface

I'll be taking the 160Gb out and putting this 250Gb into the WD enclosure.

This leaves me with 320gb in laptop, 250Gb in external USB enclosure and a spare 160Gb drive (might get an icy box 2.5" enclosure for that).