Hard Drive buying help

[KarmaPolice]

I need a new harddrive because my laptop is shot with viruses and I need to reformat. I like the idea of having a hard drive that doesn't need a huge brick of a power supply so I am kinda looking at a portable one. I notice that they are all 5400rpm. Will I fall asleep using one of these? Is the 7200 to 5400 that big of a deal? The small ones come with like 120gb which I think is enough for me. I'll use it mostly just for music and movies, as I think running any games or stuff off of a external harddrive is a bad idea no?


I am looking at this one.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...lectedRating=-1&Page=3

if not portable I think i'll get one of these

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822148233


thoughts?

I mean I also have a old SATA harddrive from my desktop that died that I am not using. Would buying an enclosure for SATA and IDE be better?

 

[Zepper]

Either of the drives in those cases is likely to be faster than the USB 2.0 interface allows anyway - I get a bit over 20MB/sec read. Doesn't your laptop have a firewire port? Then get an external drive with both interfaces. You'll get a little bit better speed out of FW for HDDS.

.bh.

 

[onlyCOpunk]

I agree with Zepper. And an external drive with a laptop is not a bad idea. It also sounds like you've made up your mind.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Any other thoughts?

 

[Old Hippie]

If I were you, and my laptop didn't have a 7200 RPM drive, I'd buy a 7200, swap it to the laptop, and buy an external case for the old drive.