Looking for a performance hard drive

I recently bought a high end Samsung NP550 Laptop (core i17 3610QM, 8GB,GT 650M). But it has a 5400 rpm hard drive which is causing problems ( see my previous thread ).
I am looking for upgradation to a fast Harddrive (Not SSD). Can anyone suggest which is the fastest laptop hard drive out there ?? Are 10000 rpm harddrives available for laptops ??

 

I already told you about the Seagate 750GB Hybrid. You're not going to find anything faster without going without with a SSD.

 

Depends on what you define as fast. Also it would help us to know your budget.
According to SSDreview, the most common read/write operations an average user utilizes of any kind of non-volatile storage are 4k read/write plus a list of others. You can see for yourself here: Understanding SSD Advertised Performance and Its Purchase Implications - An SSD Primer - The SSD Review
Essentially, the easiest metric of speed is boot times and UI snappiness. Boot times and system snappiness depends on accessing loads of random little files around the drive partition, so any speed up has a direct effect on these.

Roughly speaking, most HDDs have terrible random 4k read/write performance regardless of RPM though 7200rpm drives redeem themselves better. Thats why the interface still feels somewhat sluggish with HDDs. Cheap SSDs far exceed even the best HDDs during random access/write operations by several magnitudes so if you want a snappy interface then you can't beat an SSD.

HDDs are much better at sequential operations so if your primary concern is speedily transfering files, then HDDs may be sufficient for your purposes.
In this case, you have to account for RPM speed but also areal density of the platter (this can only be gleaned from in depth reviews I'm afraid) 5400RPM drives with high density (e.g. 1tb drives) may actually have quite high sequential transfer speeds.
I recommend WD blacks, I prefer the 500gb since it seems to have the best balance of speed, size and cost.
I'm afraid I don't know of any 10,000 rpm drives in existence.

I'm not a fan of the hybrid SSDs, they seem extremely pricey for only an improvement in boot times and certain application load times. Even then it takes a few uses for the thing to "learn".

 

The Seagate hybrid is going to be the best mechanical drive you will find inside a laptop, since there are no 10k RPM drives. Otherwise, you're just going to have to consider either taking a storage capacity hit and replace the 5400RPM with a SSD, or take out the optical drive and have the SSD as the main drive, 5400RPM as a storage drive in place of the ODD.

 

I hate it when people silently declare that a phrase is a real phrase that people use that actually means something etc. "performance hard drive" seriously how did you think that up? No such thing exists, at least for the mobile sector. Storage devices are completely different than other computer components, obviously you can't overclock them to gain performance, there are no real competing standard hard drives from different brands E. G. Seagate 1tb 7200 rpm VS Toshiba 1tb 7200 rpm. These are all misconceptions implied by your wording. Why not just say, "high performance hard drive"??
BTW the RPM of the drive does NOT necessarily increase performance after a certain point, my 7200 rpm 200gb drive is most certainly slower than my 640gb 5400 rpm drive.

If you DO insist on thinking about storage this way, as if its another laptop component with different grades and speeds and competing models from different brands, you HAVE to think about solid state storage devices, its the only way it will make sense to you. Also, here we have all offerings generally in a maximum form factor of 2.5" compatible with laptops. In the grand scheme of things, if you were to have said "performance drive" it would have made more sense and we'd be able to explain to you how a high end SSD could be called "performance grade" or something along those lines, relative to hard drives in general which keep costs to GB in higher priority. And we could even suggest that if it were really necessary you could get an industrial grade drive which beats almost all normal consumer drives.

Honestly you're not going to notice a huge difference going from your 500gb 5400 rpm drive to even a SSD or a Seagate hybrid drive. To really see a big difference and get the "performance drive" you're looking for you should buy a really nice modern SSD.
However, considering that your 500gb 5400 is causing problems and may be physically damaged, you could get the performance your missing from a simple RMA. If you determine whether or not there is a hardware issue with the drive, this should be your first logical course of action, since you have no point of comparison for the speed.
Its not very logical for you to conclude that you need something high end just because your current midrange part may be broken.