Advice needed for a performance hard drive

Hi, im running a macbook (the old black one) and right now it still has the stock harddrive (TOSHIBA MK1234GSX 120GB).
i'd like to upgrade it because im running out of space.
as a dj i would like to switch to a 7200rpm harddrive as they are supposed to work better than 5200rpm when playing multiple music files at the same time etc. (must have something to do with the buffering and reading time, is this true?)

the macbook comes with an intergrated accelerometer, however i think the integrated is pretty oldschool and doesnt represent state of the art technology, so would it be advisable to get one of those gforce seagate drives. i heard about the the barracuda firmware crashes, and that some of the new seagate momentum are affected by this aswell, is this true?

when playing in nightclubs, there is usually a lot of vibration because of the bass etc. could it happen that the vibration is that intense that the harddrive is going into park position?

one last thing, i have a lacie 250gb ext drive (the brick model with the orange rubber outside protection) anyone knows what harddrive is inside?

thx for the help

 

A new internal 7200rpm drive will do wonders for you.
I recommend looking at the Hitachi 7K320, WD3200BEKT, and the seagate momentus 7200.3

The new Seagate 7200.4 is the fastest 7200rpm notebook drive, but it has been hard to find because seagate is revamping the firmware for the drive.

You should check zipzoomfly, newegg and tiger direct for good harddrive deals. Zipzoomfly usually has thee 7K320 for $50 after rebate, which is an amazing price no matter how you cut it

K-TRON

 

so if i were not in a hurry, should i go with the seagate 7200.4? right now im still fine with about 20 gigs left, howeve rim always only taking the music i need with me. with a 320 or even 500 gig it would be obsolete to copy songs before the gig
how about the gforce issues, could they cause a problem?

 

If you are worried about vibrations then you could look into SSD drives instead. They are coming down in price and going up in storage space at an incredible rate. OCZ do some pretty good 250GB cheapish ones(cheap for a SSD ). SSD's do use wear leveling algorithms which means they may not last as long as HDD's if lots of data is constantly put on and taken off it but I think that is quickly becoming an issue of the past as tech has and will improve. As far as performance is concerned they are very quick.

 

You mean bad SSD's won't last as long... you get an SLC drive and it will last longer than HDD