New hdd for acer 6935g - Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500gb st9500420asg

Hi Gang,

Does anyone have any opinions on the Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500gb st9500420asg hard drive when used in an acer 6935g. I am looking to replace my existing hitachi 250gb hard drive with the seagate, for when i upgrade the os to win 7 pro 64bit.

I am interested in the following aspects:
- Hard drive speed in real world use, ie is the laptop noticeably faster in use and in booting up, shutting down? Yes, i know it is 7200 compared to the 5400 but does the speed actually make a difference..?

- Power (battery) useage, is there much reduction in battery life (20 minutes or more)?

-noise, is it noiser than the stock hdd, if so is it annoyingly noisy?

I have done my research on the web and in some reviews it is highly rated but in another they recommend the wd scorpio blue and in another the equivalent hitachi. So that is why i am asking here for peoples actual experience of the drive in an acer 6935g or similar acer laptop and not relying on the tests done with some other pc rig that they used.

Thanks,
Natman

 

this drive is nice. 5.9 on the Vista WEI. does get a bit warm but that is normal. battery life was not affected that much from a 500GB 5400RPM

as for noise, not louder than any other drive I have used.

 

Hi TechieDiva,

I bought the seagate hdd.

I was wondering how did you partition the hdd?
I amconsidering partitioning it as below:

part1 -100gb win 7 os
part2 - 300gb data
part3 - 30gb win 7 temp files use
part4 - 35gb applications use

Natman

 

the first partition was like 68 or so GB's.

I created a second one exactly 400GB for storage.