7200 RPM notebook drives?

I'm looking upgrade my the hard drive in my nc8430 pretty soon. I currently have an 80gb that I'm filling up pretty quickly.

Question is: should I go with another 5400 RPM drive or is a 7200 RPM worth the performance gain for it's increased power consumption and heat generation? The Hitachi 7K200 200gb is looking pretty nice, but I'm quite comfortable with the power and temperature my current 5400 RPM drive runs at.

 

i just looked at the Hitachi and it looks real nice

i'd go w/ it if there isn't a big price difference..

 

I would go with it also think power and heat are minimal. Don't know what you have now but if old enough new might be as good or better heat and power wise.

 

Price, shmice...it's $150 at Tigerdirect, and I'm happy to pay that much.

I have a Hitachi HTS541680J9SA00 / 5K160 right now (80GB, 5400 RPM SATA)

 

The 7k200 or a 5k320 are bot amazing drives, which will give you very high performance, which will give your old drive a real run.

Both the 5k320 and the 7k200 are similar in performance, averaging at 52mb/sec. Your 5k160 has one 80gb platter which will give a nominal average speed of 34mb/sec, so their will be a pretty large jump in speed.

If you are in need of space i would go for the 320gb drive, but if you want a 7200rpm drive just so you can be satisfied get the 7k200. Both are around the same price and same speed.

K-TRON

 

Actually - on newegg.com, the 5k320 has a rebate and free shipping - it is only $100. The 7k200 is $145 after rebate.

 

Wow $100 bucks, damn in newegg didnt have tax in new york state I would so pick one up. That is a great deal 320gb for $100.
Thats almost as good of a price to gb ratio as desktop drives.

K-TRON

 

I'd go with the Hitachi 7K320. It comes in sizes
from 80gb to 320gb. Uses a low amount of power
and is 7200rpm.

http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.57ddeb9b412fed7ac41d3814eac4f0a0/

The Seagate Momentus 7200.3 looks pretty nice too
in terms of power consumption and performance.

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/laptops/momentus/momentus_7200.3/

Andy

 

Seagate drives benefit from a 5 year warranty of course

 

Wow, I didn't even know there were already 360gb 7200RPM drives for notebooks!

I am in need of space, but 200gb will serve me for a long time.

Put it this way: ignoring the price and capacity, which 7200RPM drive will give me the lowest power consumption and heat generation?

EDIT: the Seagate is actually looking to be the most attractive option here.

 

Indeed. Make sure you get one that has a long warranty.

As for the benefit of lower consumption by other drives I'm not really which has a better in terms of marginal benefit- better warranty or low power consumption and thus less pressure on battery...

 

Hold on there. I bought mine (Hitachi 7k200) for $100 after rebates ($120 before rebate); A very good deal. Just got it a couple days ago and I really like the performance gain compared to my other 5400rpm drive.

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10005818
Expires July 7.

Zipzoomfly has a lot of great deals for other hitachi notebook drives as well.

 

So, how does the heat and power consumption compare? What was your old drive?

 

the new 7k320 drives is comparable to a old hitachi 5400rpm drive

power consumption can be seen at their website

http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.edf693c2139b099056fb11f0aac4f0a0/

 

Hey guys now you could order the Hitachi Travelstar 7K320 (7200RPMs)
on this site -----> http://https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Hitachi/0A57547/

 

You can find powerconsumption and temperatures on sites like:
http://www.storagereview.com/Hitachi250WD320.sr?page=0,5
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2-5-hard-drive-charts/

I don't know what specific Seagte your referring to.

Here's what it comes down to, from fastest to slower:
1 A good SSD, like Mtron for example. (expensive)
2 Hitachi 7K320 320GB or Western Digital Black Scorpio (around $200)
3 Hitachi 7K200 200GB.
4 Western Digital Scorpio 320GB 5400rpm or similar drives.

Some believe that 320GB 5400rpm are just as fast as a Hitachi 7K200. In my opinion they are wrong. They are believing synthetic benchmarks. In real life scenario's Hitachi 7K200 is faster. Any application benchmark will show this.

 

An SSD is just plain out of the question, they're way too expensive right onw.

How, exactly, is 320GB 7200RPM any faster than what is basically the same model of drive with a lesser capacity?

Thanks for the StorageReview link, that was helpful.

 

The data density is higher on the 320GB model, causing higher transfer rates.

 

Ah, makes sense, thanks. According to the charts you linked me to, the Seagate appears to be the most efficient of the 7200RPM drives.

 

Efficient? If you mean 2.9 watt vs 3.0 watt, that is not going to make any noticeable difference in battery life.

Have you looked at this chart too?
http://www.storagereview.com/Hitachi250WD320.sr?page=0,2

 

So, what are you saying? The Hitachi is the one to go for? Make up my mind, will ya?

 

lol yeah get the Hitachi 7K320 320GB for $200 or, if that's a bit too expensive go for the Hitachi 7K200 200GB.

 

You can also find the Western Digital Scorpio Black 320GB (7200RPMs)
here -------> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136280

 

Even a better deal than newegg. $100 for the 7k200 - hard to beat that deal!

 

Yeah good price! $179

 

I hate this website, you people just cost me another $185.99!!!

 

Cool! I'd love to see benchmarks on that one.

Would you be willing to runs run some benchmarks an post the results?

 

I'll give it a try................I downloaded HDtune (trial edition) so it's good for another 14 days...............if it gets here and I can get it installed and working properly I'll see what I can do.

Be forewarned though, I'm so computer stupid that I don't even know how to take and post screen shots.

 

Ok great.

HD Tune is interesting but just a synthetic benchmark and quite limited in meaning.

PC Mark has some better benchmarks that simulate normal usage. I'll let you know when you get it. When are you expecting it?

No problem, lots of people here that can help. Here's how to take a screenshot: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/tips/screenshot.mspx

 

I downloaded PCmark05 and even paid for the upgrade for it, it wouldn't run on this machine...............I suspect because it's x64 Vista.

 

Well you can run PC Mark Vantage for free once. Maybe that would work. Oh well.. we'll work something out.

 

@ the OP, Seagate sounds like your best Option

 

I just turned off Account Access and the password and tried running it several times with no luck. Think I'll start a new thread on it and see if anyone can give me some pointers.