HD 5400rpm or 7200rpm?

If you would be buying a new HD lets say a 100GB HD. Would you get a 5400rpm and save up on battery life or a 7200rpm for performance?

 

7200 RPM for performance, but I'm a gamer so it depends on what you'd mostly be using it for. Besides, most tests show that the battery life savings is often negligible.

 

the battery life hit is very negligible, probably a minute or two (if any). 7200rpm will give you a much welcome performance boost, the 5400 will give you more storage. if you don't work with a HUUUGGE file then 5400 will be sufficient indeed. there's a 5400rpm Perpedicular drive which has the speed of a 7200 drive, courtesy of increase data density. early next year u should see a 7200rpm Perpendicular drive with more performance.

 

you mean if i use a 7200rpm drive, i will just lose 1 or 2 minuted from my battery life???

so if i use my laptop for my everyday work and my battery lasts 180 minutes (3 hours) this means that by using a 7200rpm drive, my battery will last for 178minutes ?

If its that small then id go with the 7200rpm any day.

 

in general; the wattage is the same. the 7200 will put slightly more noise but it is neglibile, i'd be supprised if you can tell the difference. basically the cons of 7200rpm drive is the price, and max HD size.

this thread might worth the look:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=59053

 

so i read you thread, and what if I will use drive for storing movies, music, etc..
I will be playing games, but not so much..Will be the 5400 enough?

 

get a 5400 perpendicular drive. It has near 7200 rpm performance and will be more than sufficient for media apps.

 

most people are afraid when they see the 5400rpm drive, they thought that it will be very slow, this is not the case. it will mostly be enough. infact, most of the times you wouldn't even notice the speed improvement. you will see benefit of using the 7200rpm drive when you are working with huge photoshop file, or editing movies, or loading huge games like BF2, or defragmenting your HD, or scanning for malware, etc. all in all, if u don't mind the reduce harddrive size and increase price per GB i don't see why you wouldn't want the 7200rpm one.

btw, the best notebook's harddrive IMO is the seagate's one.