which aftermarket 2.5 inch hard drive

Hi All, I am planning to buy a Dell Precision m4700 with a 256 SSD. I need an extra storage which will be accommodated in the DVD drive. I need help with the best internal hard drive for a laptop. The higher the storage is better.

Thanks

 

Pretty much all mechanical drives are the same these days, save for power consumption perhaps. You can't go wrong with either WD or Seagate.

 

Thank you. I am planning to go with a high speed 1tb to store my Mass spec files. I have read a lot of these big HDD's being corrupted etc., hence which one I should go for...??

I also posted an update in the thread I started

http://forum.notebookreview.com/wha...on-m4700-vs-dell-xps-15-something-else-2.html

I posted the final prices I got from Dell. I also tried with Lenovo and it came $2200 for similar specs.

Privatejarhead: it is a blessing to have you hear.

Thank you.

 

Well, there were several reviews I've read about having problems with 1TB and up drives, though I haven't seen any recent ones.

As for converting your optical drive bay to a HDD bay, NewModeUS is a great place to look for a caddy. I have their W520 caddy and it's pretty high quality, albeit pricey compared to eBay options (though I don't trust eBay/PayPal, so the cost is worth it to me). 2nd HDD /SSD Caddy, DELL M6400, M6500, M4600, M4700, M6600,M6700 [OBHD9-SATA-SATA-B] - $42.00 : NewmodeUS, Hard Drive Caddys for Notebooks

As for drives, the top two 1TB 9.5mm height drives are these three:

Newegg.com - Seagate Constellation.2 ST91000640NS 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache 2.5" SATA 6.0Gb/s Enterprise-class Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive (31 reviews, 4-star)

Newegg.com - SAMSUNG Spinpoint M8 HN-M101MBB 1TB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive (121 reviews, 3-star)

Newegg.com - Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD10TPVT 1TB 5200 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive (125 reviews, 3-star)

 

Thank you very much. This is pretty info for me.

 

That's 12.5mm high

 

That it is. My mistake.

 

I stick to WD or Hitachi. I've had many Seagate hard drives over the years, in my own notebooks and in countless review units. Seagate's quality is middling next to those two; the motors they use vibrate more, they make more noise and are slower.

 

I also recommend WD over the others, they never failed for me. Buy the Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD10JPVT 1TB 9mm.

 

I have a Western Digital scorpio black for my Data. I did not screw in my ODD and it occasionally falls out, but I have not had any problems.

 

what about the momentus XT???

running 2 in raid 0 would be a cool setup.

 

Maybe, but it wouldn't be too useful. If speed is what you're after, a SSD is a much better way.

And if you try a SSD RAID setup (like RAID 0), you hit massively tiny marginal returns in speed in exchange for massive marginal cost.

 

Thank you all.