What laptop hard drive should I buy?

[Jaxidian]

From everything I've read so far, the largest/fastest thing I can buy is a 100GB Hitachi (Newegg has it for just over $100). I'm willing to pay more for it but I just can't find anything larger that's close to as fast.

Can anybody else help me out here? I checked Newegg, Fry's, and Mwave, all without luck, so I'm pretty pessimistic at this point.

-Jax

 

[Roguestar]

In laptops you'll have to trade speed for size unless you really want to break the bank. You could always get the 100GB Hitachi and then get an external hard drive?

 

[Old Hippie]

AFAIK, that's the largest 2.5" 7200rpm that's currently avaliable.

 

[imported_AndyT]

The Hitachi's are good fast drives IMO. I did have a 5400rpm model fail after 2 1/2 years of constant everyday use, but I replaced it with a 7200rpm Hitachi and it been great.

 

[Jaxidian]

I was hoping you all had better news than this for me. Obviously I realize it's difficult to get large/fast laptop drives. I know some 240GB drives are now available but I don't think they're 7200 rpm. I also have seen some larger 7200 rpm IDE drives, but not SATA, so that's another one of my problems.

As for how much it costs, I realize I'm going to be paying for it. But that's fine, I'm happy to pay significantly for it. Given a 100gb 7200 drive at $110, I'd be happy to pay $250 for a 160gb 7200 rpm drive. Well worth it for me because it saves me time (external drives) and time is money.