Which 320 Gig Hard Drive?

Western Digital Scorpio (WD3200BEKT) 320GB SATA 7200 RPM 16MB Cache 2.5" Laptop Hard Disk (OEM) -
Promotional Cash Price: $109.99

Seagate Momentus (ST9320421AS) 320GB 7200.3 SATA 7200RPM 16MB Cache 2.5" Laptop HDD (OEM)
Promotional Cash Price: $104.99

Hitachi Travelstar 320GB 2.5" SATA II 7200rpm 16MB (0A57547)
Mail-in-Rebate: -$20.00
$85.99

 

I always had Hitachi and they did well for me!

 

seagate or WD either or but the segate has lower average latency.

 

I second that, I've had the Seagate drive for almost 6 months and it never failed. It also gets ~70mb/s read speed...

 

Thats a rip off on the Hitachi, its $50 on zipzoomfly,
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10008894

I would go for it, since it offers the best bang for the buck. I have three of them, all great drives. I kinda wish I waited on buying them, cause it cost me $110 for each of my 160gb model 7K320's

K-TRON

 

WD3200BEKT as it has better I/O performance out of those 3...

Seagate 7200.3 : Fastest sequential read/write. slow access time.. according to a techreport review, its beaten in some benchmark by a 5400rpm scorpio blue.. wth...

Hitachi 7k320: Good all rounder.. nothing to complain... i just prefer WD/Samsung as I still havebitter taste of hitachi from their old deskstar desktop hdd

 

I would not buy a seagate imo had them fail in my laptop and desktop within a year.

 

WD Black

It doesn't perform quite as well as the Seagate in some areas but I've RMA'd 50% of the seagate drives I have ever owned so...

 

Just want to point out that you can get better prices on those drives, the Seagate specifically: http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Momen...3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1237817391&sr=8-3

82.99 at Amazon...

Not looking for the other two.

My 7200.3 performed perfectly for me over 4 months, and is still working perfectly for my father. FWIW...

 

Well both you and K-Tron gave me cheaper prices, but I can't order offline, and I'm in the land of cold and ripoff electronics (canada) so I'm stuck to the nearest computer shop.

 

I would go Hitachi. Anyone I know who has one has had good luck....
The supposedly have a good reliability record...

 

I am in canada.. i was in the same boat as you... cheapest WD was 105 or 110 cheapeast seagate was about the same.

NCIX had the hitachi on sale and after shipping it was 97 with taxes and everything and on top of that 20 usd rebate... so it was a no brainer for me.

They may still have it on sale if not then wait a bit as they are trying to clear them out i think as they go on sale a lot.