Hitachi or Western Digital on a Dell E4300 ?

I've two Dell E4300 and I've "completely" disasessembled them.

They have two different hard disk and differ in some components, too.

On one laptop there is an Hitachi:
MDL: HTS723216L9A362
S/N: 091211FC3203NPJ9MHUG
5V 800 mA


The other is equipped with a WD Scorpio Black:
MDL: WD1600BJKT-75F4T0
S/N: WD-WX10A79D0249
5V 550 mA

Which is a better solution in terms of performance and noise ?
Which would you choose ?

thks

 

According to StorageReview.com the WD Scorpio Black is the fastest drive of the 2.
So I would go for the WD.
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But I think the Hitachi would be more quiet.
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Still I think I prefer performance over noise.

 

WD`s are general the most reliable brand of HDD in my opinion.

John.

 

And in terms of noise the differences are remarkable or not ?

 

The clunking noise of the power management drove me away from hdd`s and i bought an ssd and i have never looked back, this affect a lot of hdd`s

John.

 

Ok.
But the question is completely different.
I'm considering only these two hard disk.

 

In my experience the Hitachi's have the best balance of power usage, performance and noise characteristics for Windows O/S's.

Don't have time to specifically research both of these now; but I would take the Hitachi over the hotter/noiser (and only slightly faster, in real world usage) WD any day.

 

All I know is that when I hear people talk about the noise from their HDDs I have no idea what they're talking about. Can you hear any noise from the Hitachis? Yes. But I can also hear myself breath too...if it gets quiet enough.

 

In terms of reliability and data transfer rate could them be considered on the same plan ?

 

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As for the storage capacity is concerned Western digital is a good one ,but Hitachi is good with its speed and noise.So i would suggest that both are equally great.

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Despite only using my WD OEM for backup, it died a long time ago. Anecdotal I know, but it's all I got.

 

Hi, so are there no concrete differences about performance and reliability ?

 

Help !!!

 

Concrete differences?

How about:

See:
Western Digital WD WD1600BJKT-75F4T0 Data Recovery - Datacent


As mentioned (and hinted by others) the Hitachi is what I would choose.

(I would actually retire both of these drives and get a current 500GB - 750GB 7200 RPM drive instead - yes, the performance differences are that much from your 160GB circa 2005 era hardware).

Hope this helps?

 

On another system I've to replace the "built-in" hard disk (120 Gb Sata) with a budget one (No ssd...) and I'm wondering about a 5400 rpm (Firstly for its low noise and low cost).

What about it ?

 

On another system I've to replace the "built-in" hard disk (120 Gb Sata) with a budget one (No ssd...) and I'm wondering about a 5400 rpm (Firstly for its low noise and low cost).

What about it ?

 

Which models of hard disk are you looking at?

 

A budget model with average performance and low temperature of exercise.
I was thinking about a 160 or 250 Gb at 5400 rpm

Seagate, WD or Hitachi... this make no much difference for me.

 

A budget model with average performance and low temperature of exercise.
I was thinking about a 160 or 250 Gb at 5400 rpm

Seagate, WD or Hitachi... this make no much difference for me.

 

What about these considerations, particularly around the mentioned Western Digital hd ?

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Also Hitachi seems to have seriuos problems on some models.

My model (for now) has the following number id:
Drive Model: HTS723216L9A362 (Hitachi 7K160)