Your opinions - best notebook hard drives

[dsh135]

I would like your opinions on the following questions:

What is the fastest notebook hard drive currently available?
What is the most reliable notebook hard drive currently available?

 

[wahnula]

I believe (no off-hand statistics to back it up) that the Hitachi Travelstar 7200RRM is still the fastest 2.5" rotating drive. It does use more battery. However the SSDs are entering the picture and, although beau coup expensive, they are pretty much the fastest game in town.

I believe reliability is a crapshoot, everyone has their own favorites. I've had great luck with Toshiba 2.5" drives that I use for external backup drives that get tossed around constantly, and have not failed me for three years. For my personal rigs I use Seagate 7200.11's or WD Raptors and for my server I use WD Raptors.

Of them all, the most troublesome have been the Raptors.

Tony

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[G0AOZ]

Take a look at SSDs (Solid State Drives). They're faster and more reliable, but expensive. Here's one example:-

http://www.mtron.net/English/Product/overview.asp

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[wahnula]

The review I recently read puts the Mtron at the bottom of the SSD market in speed and battery life. Samsung is the winner, but $$$$ holy $moke!!!

Another less expensive option is a hybrid drive, a standard rotating platter drive with a dash of NAND flash memory...but for some reason they are not catching on. I have also heard horror stories about data recovery with these drives when/if they fail.

I use 7200 RPM Travelstar drives in my own & my wife's laptops.

Tony

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[kjv1611]

I've really liked the Seagate Momentus Hard Drives of late. They are fast, do pretty well on temps and battery, quiet - generally, and have a 5 year warranty. The WD Scorpio is not bad either. If price is no object, though, I'd go ahead and go SSD. No moving parts to damage from movement, such as being dropped; and at least generally faster than spindle drives.

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[kjv1611]

Also, you could look at the charts here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2-5-hard-drive-charts/benchmarks,25.html

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