Advice needed for new notebook HDD

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I've been looking to upgrade my laptop's hard drive to the fastest, non-SSD drive available for a couple months, but hadn't gotten around to it until now. I say non-SSD because they're just too costly at this time and I would like something that's at least 250 GB.

I currently have a Hitachi 250 GB 5400RPM drive (HTS542525K9SA00). The WD Scorpio Black 320 GB 7200 RPM (WD3200BEKT) looks to be the fastest around (at least according to a quick search on tomshardware.com) but they're been out for a while now and I'm wondering if they'll be updated soon, or if there's a faster 2.5" HDD out there that I'm missing. I ask this because I haven't really been keeping up with the mobile hard drive (non-SSD) market lately.
 
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There's also the Seagate Momentus (ST9320421AS) 320GB 7200 RPM, which apparently tops the WD drive in some tests. Any input on Seagate drives (not trying to start a flamewar here, honest experiences)?
 
Take a look into the WD Scorpio Blue 500GB 5400rpm

They can be had for real cheap and perform alike to the 320gb 7200rpm Scorpio Black. You loose the latency due to spindle speed, but the throughput of the Blue 500 is almost matched thanks to the areal density.
 
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