My order: Z 570 - 250 GB 7200rpm or 320 GB 5400? pls help.

I'm ordering a Z570 from PortableOne with the following spec's.

The only thing I can't decide on is which Hard Drive to get.

Which should I buy, the 250/7200 or the 320/5400

VAIO Z570 P9500 2.53GHz
4 GB Ram DDR3
250 GB 7200 rpm
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If you don't need the space, get the 250. It will be a better performing drive, people will tell you different numbers but I think the difference in performance is noticeable.

 

The 7200RPM drive will run hotter than the 5400RPM drive, so keep that in mind, although it may not matter if you dont use it as a "lap" top.

 

The 320GB drive Sony is using most is a Toshiba that is not the best performer. Go with the 250GB/7200 rpm. It will be faster. It does use more power though as you can see in the benchmarks.

Benchmarks between 250GB/7200 and Toshiba 320GB/5400rpm.

 

in all those tests the toshiba 320 GB still outperforms my previous toshiba 160 GB drive that came with my first SR. So I r happy!

But yea...now that i think of it..maybe i should have paid 50 bucks more for the smaller capacity, hotter, yet faster 250 GB 7200 RPM drive... meh... oh well.

 

Great. Performance is still quite good.

And you can always buy an external enclosure, put the Tosh in it and buy a WD3200BEKT for your SR. Everyone needs an external harddrive in my opinion.

 

Dude, did you not even read my post your other thread? I did a little research for you and you didn't even bother to respond.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=3844678&postcount=7

Well if you want to waste 125 bucks go ahead be my guest.

 

By the way, before you order the 250GB/7200rpm you may want to read this review:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/notebook-hard-drive,2006-5.html

 

Duke, thanks for the tip ... there's a few reasons I'm ordering from PortableOne ... Sony.com doesn't ship to Canada and Sony Canada only sells one configuration of the Z a 'Z555' which isn't spec'd out like the 570 and finally I've been really happy with PortableOne's advice service ...

PhilFlow, Thanks for that. From reading your posts I respect your advice. What hard drive would you put in the Z and what do you think of the spec's I ordered on it.

So, I ended up with the LG P300 ... it's not going back ... my wife loves it, so she's going to take it and sell her heavy 15" Dell and I'm going to take the Z and hope it's my 'dream machine'

Phil - what kind of notebook do you use?

Thanks again!

 

Looks like fine specs. Personally I would go 1600*900 and for the 2.4Ghz because the performance difference will be very small.

I'd order the cheapest drive from Sony and then replace it with the WD3200BEKT.