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    Best Economical 2.5" SATA-600 7.2k 500GB+ Drive for VM's on Laptop

    Yes, it was a good and common analogy. The VM's are not thin provisioned, as I'm just using VMware Workstation 9 on Win7. Although the VMDK files are expanding/thin (or whatever VMware refers to them as). And I do realize that thick-provisioned should yield better perf (as I know with Hyper-V...
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    Best Economical 2.5" SATA-600 7.2k 500GB+ Drive for VM's on Laptop

    Thanks for the analogy...although I understood what you meant. I just haven't looked to see if that was the case, although I did see that the Seagate hybrid does have better specs than my existing platter drive. And I do know that I'd get much better speed out of a true SSD, I'm just not willing...
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    Best Economical 2.5" SATA-600 7.2k 500GB+ Drive for VM's on Laptop

    Thanks for the replies. I understand I didn't get specific regarding performance and current load, but I'm not looking for the absolute best performance (as I know I'd need to go to a true SSD and am not looking to spend the required $ for that). But my current VM drive is SATA-300, and figured...
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    Best Economical 2.5" SATA-600 7.2k 500GB+ Drive for VM's on Laptop

    Hello, I'm looking to upgrade my 300GB Hitachi Travelstar Z7K320 that's in the media bay of my Latitude E6420 that holds my VM's. I was thinking of putting it in an external enclosure, but I spoke with Dell and they said swapping the drive out of the media bay enclosure wouldn't void the...
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