Notebook hard drive speeds

[Artician]

I'm looking at buying a new notebook HDD for a small form PC I'm building. Just curious if 4200rpm drives were really all that slow, or if I should go for one of the quicker speeds. The PC in question will just be used for emulation of 16-bit and earlier games, as well as viewing videos. Nothing I'd consider too strenuous, but I don't know where this speed difference will really show up (just accessing the data to load into RAM, or if it will cause overall performance to lag).

Thanks in advance for the feedback!

 

[Dahak]

If the price difference is not that much between a 4200(which is standard now) and the 5400rpm drives may as well go with the faster drive. I remember seeing my price list at work and the price difference between the 2 is about 15-20 $ cnd cost

 

[Artician]

I am getting similar results for varying brands. Most get quick expensive once you get closer to desktop HDD speeds, upwards of $200 - 300 in price for a 7200rpm drive. I'm not sure if that's worth it.

Any manufacturers to stay away from? Recommend? My girlfriend and I both lost our Toshiba HDD's (from existing notebooks) to random failure in the last few months, so we're weary of that being a reoccurance.

Thank you!

 

[Dahak]

for brands, cant really say which, ive seen every brand fail, but not no anymore than another, so couldnt really say. but id personally lean more towards fujitsu or hgst(hitachi)

 

[airfoil]

A 4200 rpm drive will be noticeable slow. I suggest you buy a 5400 rpm drive like the Seagate Momentus.

 

[Melchior]

60 gb Hitachi Travelstar 7k60.

 

[Artician]

Thank you all very much!