best 250gb HDD for E6400

The Blue does not have the freefall sensor, just the black model does.

 

Hitachi! The 250gb 7200rpm Seagate that came with my laptop gets hot and vibrates the entire computer vigorously. My 500gb 5400rpm Hitachi is a lot better.

 

thanks for the suggestions!
One question:
Why are some recommending the Scorpio Blue over the Scorpio Black?
The Black is faster and comes with FFS so what would be the reasons for the Blue?

@TheZoid,
Yeah me too, i'll probably get three new ones, throw 2 in my M4400 with the caddy and 1 for the E6400.

 

why are my posts disappearing?
Question was:

Why the Blue version over the Black? Black has FFS and is faster.
Any reasons to choose the Blue?

 

Both the Blue and the Black come with ShockGuard and SecurePark but only the Black models have the Free-fall sensor. Aside from that some of differences are; the Blue only has a 8 MB cache and is 5400 RPM and the Black is 16 MB and 7200 RPM. Also looking at the Specs it seems the Black model is just a little bit quieter.

Check them out here
Blue:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=512

Black:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=478

 

Dammit...where are all my posts going!?!?!

 

I'm thinking SSD...what's the biggest/best deal out there now on them?

 

Ok seems all my posts are back in the right place at least....now i seem to be just rambling on about the same question

I'll be getting the Black then, clear now.

@Zoid
I'm holding off SSD for now, at least until 250gb ones are priced lower and there's no more talk about performance degrading over time.

 

a ssd with a badly degraded filesystem will still horse a hdd anyday plus its silent and u seem to be overly concerned with a ffs than anything else suggests ur more worried about shock or damage than anything else which should mean you should be looking at an ssd

why not do what i did first and buy a 64gb ssd and use ur current hard drive in an esata enclosure ?

it makes more sense to have your important data seperate from your system drive incase of some os nonsense forcing you to reformat and losing your data

i was going to get a 500gb 7200 hdd then i thought why am i going to throw money at that when a little bit more i can buy a stupidly fast ssd , and if its performance degrades ..... who cares cos i can reinstall and install software so fast that i have backed up onto my esata drive!

honestly i have had mine for months now and i am a extremely heavy user on disk IO and i cant notice much if any performance loss , you could always set your system up how you like and do a ghost image to an esata drive , going buy a rough guess you could format and reimage your drive fresh in well under ten minutes

 

Main reason is that i would need almost that full 60gb for my XP installation which i use for music production. Not on my E6400 though, that'll just be my "on the go" lappy, maybe a smaller SSD is an option indeed.
I've been using system images for quite some time and really wouldn't want to do without them anymore, best way to be safe indeed.