what hard drive should i get?

7200rpm hard drive
or
5400rpm Hybrid with a 256 flash?

what should i take and why?

(thinking of the SZ680)

 

depends on:
- what applications are most important to you.
- how important battery life is to you
- how important noise is to you
etc.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/07/13/should_you_care_about_hybrid_hard_drives/
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/08/02/speed_or_capacity/

"Our title asks the question of whether or not you should care about hybrid hard drives today. At this point I have to say "don't bother." Although H-HDDs are still at the very beginning of their development and future versions with faster or more NV cache are likely to make a more substantial difference, our test results are straightforward on this early model. The performance benefits of the first H-HDDs using Windows Vista are small to nonexistent, and the battery life improvement could not convince us either."

Maybe you want to have Samsung M5 250GB instead. Very big, quiet, fast and does not need a lot of energy.

"The M5S top model is called HD250JI, spins at 5,400 RPM and outperforms almost every other 2.5" hard drive. Even better, it does so without requiring more energy than its direct competitors. Only 7,200 RPM drives such as the Fujitsu MHW2160BJ deliver quicker access times and better I/O performance, but in terms of data transfer performance the new Samsung drive is already very close. Both drives are backed by a three-year factory warranty."

Do you know what drive you have now in your SZ?

 

Hey,
well, answers:
*gonna use a lot of photoshop.
*don't care about battery life.
*don't care about noise.
*care a lot about weight
*what about the 256 Flash memory?

 

Sound like you need the fastest 7200 RPM disk on the block. With the fastest read and write throughput (photoshop). the last page at http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/08/02/speed_or_capacity/page10.html says it all.

what do you mean?