Which of these 2 laptop HDD's do you recommend?

[GroundedSailor]

Intend to get a barebone IBM laptop and am looking at various HDD's.
2 in particular look interesting. Which ones would you choose?

$189.00
1) Toshiba MK5024GAY (HDD2186) 50GB 2.5" 7200rpm Notebook Hard Drive
* 50GB
* 7200 rpm
* 16MB Buffer Cache
* 12ms Average seek time
* 9.5mm height
* Ultra DMA 100Mbytes/sec host transfer rate
* ATA-2, ATA-3, ATA-4, ATA-5 interfaces supported
* 2 disks
* 4 data heads
* Fluid Bearing Dynamic motor


$176.00
2) Hitachi Travelstar 7K60 60GB Notebook Hard Drive
*60GB
*7200rpm
*8MB Buffer
*10ms Average seek time
*9.5mm Height
*70mm Width
*100mm Depth
*ATA-6 Interface
*Max. Media transfer rate 518 Mbits/sec
*Interface transfer rate 100 MB/sec Ultra DMA Mode-5
16.6MB/sec PIO Mode-4
More specs on the Hitachi:
http://www.hitachigst.com/tech...star7K60-Datasheet.pdf


Can't find any specs on the toshiba.


Thanks

 

[edtsui]

i'd go with the hitachi, and its only 158 from zipzoomfly.

 

[vegetation]

I'd go with Hitachi. You can use their power savings application which typically adds about 15-30 minutes of battery life to your system! Toshiba has no such feature.

 

[Abhi]

Hitachi

 

[GroundedSailor]

Looks like the general consensus is Hitatchi

Actually ZipZoomFly has a slightly better version for $158.00
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/...p?ProductCode=100519-1

The one I posted above is for $150.00
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/...jsp?ProductCode=100519

 

[saltedeggman]

but 16mb buffer will give it a very nice boost

 

[Tseng]

There are reviews compare Hitachi & Toshiba 40G 5400rpm 2.5" HD. Hitachi performs better than Toshiba even with only half of the cache memory. Probably because Toshiba firmware is not optimized. If this happened on 7200rpm model, then Hitachi still keeps the crown.