Good laptop HDD?

[imported_goku]

I believe my sister's Laptop HDD is failing (hitachi) possibly from being rough on her laptop and I was wondering what would be a good laptop HDD to replace it. It's a 60GB 4200 RPM, I've seen that seagate has laptop HDDs but I'm not sure if I should get a seagate laptop HDD or not since they may only make good desktop HDDs.

 

[shoRunner]

seagate's 100gb 5400rpm performs pretty well, along with the 7200rpm hitachi's

 

[imported_goku]

How is the reliability rate of the hitachi's for the laptop HDDs? I know their desktop counterparts are sh!tty but not sure about thier laptops.

 

[jfall]

Hitachi Travelstar E7K60

 

[Nocturnal]

We mainly use Western Digital's at work but Hitachi will do fine as well.

 

[TlitJ]

I had a Dell 600m with a Hitachi. It was the biggest dissapointment I've ever seen. Loud clicking from the git go, bad sectors everytime I checked. It was terrible. They sent me a replacement Hitachi and the same thing happened. They finally sent me a 5400 speed Hitachi that did ok. I now have a Toshiba with a Fijitsu drive. No problems what so ever.

 

[Arcanedeath]

HGST's 7k60 (not the E version thats for blade servers not notebooks) would be my choice for a 7200 rpm laptop hdd, I've had one for around a year w/ no issues and its performance is night and day w/ my old 4200 rpm 8meg buffer hgst drive. also pretty quiet in my emachines M6805

 

[John]

Seagate 5400.2 notebook hard drives are quiet, fast, run cool, and come with a 5yr warranty if you purchase it 'correctly'.

 

[shoRunner]

Originally posted by: goku
How is the reliability rate of the hitachi's for the laptop HDDs? I know their desktop counterparts are sh!tty but not sure about thier laptops.

welcome to 2005, the deathstar incident is long past and hitchi (arguably) makes drives as good as anyone else

 

[imported_goku]

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