Best 2.5" drive?

drwho9437

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A Fujitsu MHT2040H I had in my dell 300m has met a sad end. Predeath symptoms were things like windows takeing about 20 mins to start. I managed to save much of what was on the disc, some files failed CRC checks then a thunking noise started that sounded perhaps like a ball bearing dropping a short distance against metal (or perhaps it was the heads hiting something metalic repeatedly). In any case I'm quite sure it is dead.

The question is to its replacement, on Newegg 80GB seems about the sweet spot cost wise. So who makes the best 2.5" disc theses days. I hate noise and would love to save on power (perhaps even at a small performance hit), I read through several data sheets seems to me on paper Fujitsu is still on top for power use as is lower cost. However one can understand my hesitancy (though I'm sure it is just statistical), to repeat Fujitsu (I was lucky I saved any of my data).

So what do you recommend?
 

Arcanedeath

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Any HGST 2.5" drive in the 7k100 series is a good bet the 60GB one can be had for around 125 shiped w/ the 80 and 100 being somewhat more
 

drwho9437

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I found a roundup on storagereview and choose the Seagate Momentus got the 60 because that was what newegg had (price premium of 12c per GB over Fujisu 80 GB), but I've had very good luck with Seagate in desktop drives, and it was good in power and noise.

I considered the samsung and toshiba offerings but I didn't have any solid data on the noise of the later. I'm sure the seagate will be fine, but I might have wasted a bit of money.
 

chilled

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I just got a 60GB 7K100. Believe it or not, my battery life went up a bit from my 4200rpm Hitachi 30GB drive and the speed difference is like day and night. I'm very impressed.