Looking to replace 5,400rpm lap top drive,what to get?

[skipsneeky2]

Hello everyone,i am looking for some helpful information for a first time laptop/notebook owner looking to swap out a hard drive.

The notebook in question is a hp pavilion dm6 with a core i5 @ 2.5ghz with 4gb of ram and a 750gb 5,400rpm hitachi hard drive.

I found defragging the machine and other stuff like installing programs would make the pc stutter at times,and the whole experience kinda felt slower then i would like and i feel its basically a crime to pack a 5,400rpm hard drive with a core i5 processor even in a mobile laptop/notebook.^_^

Considering a 120gb ssd and while it basically cost more and would outperform any other option,how would a 500gb 7,200rpm seagate momentus perform in the access time and average read department?

Hdtune results for my current drive show a 19ms seek time with 67.5mbps as a average read time,would the momentus drive dramatically improve upon that without sacrificing battery life?It appears most people are pretty happy switching out their 5,400rpm hard drives for a 7,200rpm model,but battery life and cost effectiveness is key for me.:biggrin:

Thanks for any input anyone may have

 

[Cerb]

Considering a 120gb ssd and while it basically cost more and would outperform any other option,how would a 500gb 7,200rpm seagate momentus perform in the access time and average read department?

If the notebook ones are anything like the desktop ones, it would be worthwhile, if SSDs are too expensive for your needed capacity. I haven't had the luck to run into a notebook Hitachi lately, but the desktop Hitachis Dell and HP have used lately, even at 7200 RPM, have just been D:.

I'm not sure about battery life, but I have a hard time believing it would hurt it too much, since a backlight and a i5 are not exactly going to be power misers, relative to a HDD.

 

[KeithP]

There is always the Seagate Momentus XT option:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5160/seagate-2nd-generation-momentus-xt-750gb-hybrid-hdd-review

-KeithP