Toshiba 12.5mm 1TB HDD vs Western digital 12.5mm 1TB HDD

These are the only 2 1TB 2.5" drives I see and they use the thicker 12.mm format. What I can't find is any performance benchmarks for each one. Which one is faster WD was released in june 2009 and the toshiba was released in march 2010 so i'm assuming the newer released toshiba should perform better but thats not a guarantee. Anyone know where to find this info?

 

Even if one's faster than the other, I doubt you'd notice. Buy on price.

 

The WD will have been updated with new revisions and/or firmware so release date doesn't matter.

I say buy WD for performance, Toshiba for power efficiency. That's how it usually is.

 

i looked into it more. It seems these toshiba drives were actually created by fujitsu but toshiba bought the technology from them.

and represent the company’s first mobile HDD platforms developed with the combined engineering resources from the integration of Fujitsu’s HDD business, which Toshiba acquired last fall.

So you think the western digital one will still perform better?

Just noticed Toshibas 2.5" 750GB drive is the standard 9.5mm thickness. Only 2 platters cramming 750GB insane.

I can get by with 2x 750GB drives instead of 2x 1TB drives. How much faster is a higher density 2 platter HD system vs a 3 platter with less density per platter

Toshiba have announced their latest notebook hard-drives, and as you’d expect the company is concentrating on packing more storage into the same amount of space. Two new sizes have made their debut: a standard 9.5mm high 2.5-inch drive, the MK7559GSXP, with 750GB capacity, and the MKxx59GSM range of 12.5mm high 2.5-inch drives, with 750GB or 1.5TB of storage.

Q3 2010 for 1.5TB 12.5mm 3TB in a HP envy 17 -drools-

 

Unless anyone has run tests on them real world performance of current drives overall tends to be similar. Often makers optimise for burst write or sustained read but unless you know which you want it comes out in the wash.

7200 is useful if care a lot about boot/load times

If you save as much as you can this time you will be happier trading up again later to a drive that is demonstrably bigger/better

 

Western Digital drives are usually the best performing in their class. This was true for 320GB and 500GB. They are tuned for performance. This usually happens at the cost of power consumption, which is slightly higher.

Toshiba has done really well with power consumption of their their latest 500GB drive, not with performance.

It might be interesting to consider the 750GB WD. It's two platter so it will perform better than the 1GB while using less power.
http://www.storagereview.com/western_digital_scorpio_blue_review_750gb_wd7500bpvt

 

I decided on the western digital 1TB drive but only a single one. I am going to use a 256GB Crucial RealSSD C300 as my boot drive and for all my apps and games to run off of and the 1TB drive for storage. Searching google shopping you can find the SSD for 680 and the 1TB drive for 160. the SSD is slightly expensive but its the fastest ssd on the market even on SATA II but it does support SATA III.

These drives will be going into an HP envy 17 selling my alienware for 2750 with all the custom stuff i did to it (ssd's the t9900 put my own gtx 280's in my own matte screen) takin an 850 loss on it but thats not too bad for having it for over a half a year and I can get a decked out envy 17 and actually have a few hours of battery life.

 

I'd say performance is more of a selling factor really, half a watt here and there near as makes no difference whereas an extra 10mb/sec may not be compleetly noticable but it woulf definitely make a difference in the long run.