Laptop Hard Drive recommendation

[spinn]

What brand should I pick out of these to replace a failing Laptop drive (order of preference):

Toshiba
Samsung
Western Digital
Fujitsu
Seagate
Hitachi

What specs should I be concerned with?

Thanks!

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: spinn
What specs should I be concerned with?

Check your machine to find out of your HD is SATA or IDE connection.
After that, order a 5400.3 80GB Seagate. It's a good balance of capacity, performance and price.
If you don't care about price, go for a large 7200rpm Seagate.

 

[spinn]

I'm pretty sure it's IDE...it's about 2 yrs old. It's 80GB right now, so I'll either get the same size or maybe 120GB. What would be your next 2 brand choices? Thanks!

 

[Blain]

The Seagate 7200.1 drive is pretty snappy

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

I have a Seagate SATA and enjoy it. I also have used Western Digital in the past and they work and never failed on me.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: Blain

Originally posted by: spinn
What specs should I be concerned with?

Check your machine to find out of your HD is SATA or IDE connection.
After that, order a 5400.3 80GB Seagate. It's a good balance of capacity, performance and price.
If you don't care about price, go for a large 7200rpm Seagate.

I concur.

 

[Fallen Kell]

The Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 are bar none the fastest laptop drives you can get. I upgraded a 7 year old laptop with one of these drives and it is basically a new machine (ram was already maxed and it was swapping to disk most of the time, and the 4500 rpm disk was a major bottelneck for the system.... heck that system is now more responsive then a IBM T40 that I have even though it has a slower CPU, less memory (and slower memory), slower graphics, etc., etc., but because the hard drive is so fast, the laptop in general performs better).

I am seriously thinking swapping out the disk in the IBM, but I would need to get a conversion kit so I can do a disk copy as IBM has all their recovery/access controls on a partition on the drive...

See performance benchmarks:
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200511/notebook_3.html

 

[thescreensavers]

Originally posted by: Fallen Kell
The Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 are bar none the fastest laptop drives you can get. I upgraded a 7 year old laptop with one of these drives and it is basically a new machine (ram was already maxed and it was swapping to disk most of the time, and the 4500 rpm disk was a major bottelneck for the system.... heck that system is now more responsive then a IBM T40 that I have even though it has a slower CPU, less memory (and slower memory), slower graphics, etc., etc., but because the hard drive is so fast, the laptop in general performs better).

I am seriously thinking swapping out the disk in the IBM, but I would need to get a conversion kit so I can do a disk copy as IBM has all their recovery/access controls on a partition on the drive...

See performance benchmarks:
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200511/notebook_3.html

Thats what I got in my laptop. Hitachi 7k100
THIS 100giger

 

[antsct]

Originally posted by: Fallen Kell
The Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 are bar none the fastest laptop drives you can get. I upgraded a 7 year old laptop with one of these drives and it is basically a new machine (ram was already maxed and it was swapping to disk most of the time, and the 4500 rpm disk was a major bottelneck for the system.... heck that system is now more responsive then a IBM T40 that I have even though it has a slower CPU, less memory (and slower memory), slower graphics, etc., etc., but because the hard drive is so fast, the laptop in general performs better).

I am seriously thinking swapping out the disk in the IBM, but I would need to get a conversion kit so I can do a disk copy as IBM has all their recovery/access controls on a partition on the drive...

See performance benchmarks:
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200511/notebook_3.html

Good to hear! I ordered one of these last night.