Opinions on Hitachi 60GB 7200rpm Notebook Hard Drives

[QueHuong]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822146046 $126
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822146020 $138

These seem like a great deal. It has a lot of positive reviews on Newegg, but we know the reviews have been filtered to only speak highly of this product, so I'm turning to you guys for opinions.

Are they reliable, fast, and quiet hard drives? And which of the two is a better deal? Or should I go for something else? Thanks.

 

[Rubycon]

Option two.

Never hurts to have a little extra cash.

EDIT: It appears that both have 8MB buffers. Both should be fine drives. Only the Seagate is faster in multi user environments but I doubt you're using your notebook as a server.

 

[ElFenix]

the 7k100 is the newer drive with better firmware and probably higher areal densities, so should perform better than the 7k60 version. add in the fact that its a little cheaper and i think you found your drive.

laptoplogic reviewed a bunch of notebook harddrives, and the 7k100 came out on top.

 

[Vegito]

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/forcesho/D800-54.jpg - D800 w/ 40GB
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/forcesho/D800-60.jpg - D800 w/ 60GB 7K60
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/forcesho/D800-80.jpg - D800 w/ 80GB 7K100

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/forcesho/i6k-54.jpg - I6000 w/ 40GB
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/forcesho/i6k-60.jpg - I6000 w/ 60GB 7K60

Basically I bought a 80GB tk100 and put it in my D800 and move my 7k60 into my Inspiron 6k and use my 40gb as 2.5" usb drive.

I clone the image from old drive to new and ran HD tack with everything in background disabled. I ran it a few times to make sure the results were similar.

 

[Vegito]

BTW they should have 3 year warranty from both.. so..