Recommend me a notebook hard drive?

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Greetings! I recently pulled the trigger on one of the new Lenovo T400s :D

Though it may not be here yet, I am already trying to plan out how well the 5400RPM hard drive it came with will fare. Originally, I did not want to get a 7200RPM drive due to heat, noise, and power usage.

Are any of these things still an issue with modern notebook drives? I remember in the past this being a slight issue. If it is not an issue, could someone recommend me a specific drive? I do not need a ton of space, or at least for now :)

Thanks!
 
If space isn't important, why didn't you get an SSD? Anyhow, a 7,200 RPM drive will be quite a bit hotter and have a noticeable effect on the battery life. However, I can tell you that still don't trust Toshiba drives. I haven't had the best of luck with those. I have been very happy with the two Seagate 2.5" drives I have.

i hate to sound like a Seagate fanboy, but I'm not. If they made crap hard drives I would someone else, but the fact is that they don't.
 
I bought a 200GB 7200 Seagate for my HP.
I use my laptop as a download and all around machine. Gotten to used to it, really.
I haven't turned it off for 13months! And it's always reading/writing something.

Heat is a BIT higher in hdd area, but not very much.
Noise is not different. Case is pretty fat. Only when you press your ear near the case you can hear it's a higher pitch.

The speed difference was very tangible in everyday tasks like filecopy.
I think it was about 25-40% percent faster in performing that tasks.
I'll try and find my measurements from back than and post them...
:)
Best upgrade evAr!
Next lappy is getting SSD for sure to go with its low-end 2core nehalem CPU!
 
No drive is perfect, just worked on a newer laptop with a dead seagate drive in it for a friend. However in general they do make a good product.
 
I just upgraded from a 120GB WD Scorpio 5400rpm to the new Scorpio Black 160GB 7200rpm and it was a huge difference in performance. I cant even hear it and actually runs a good 7-8C cooler and uses about the same amount of juice. Worth every penny
 
Originally, I did not want to get a 7200RPM drive due to heat, noise, and power usage.
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Pretty much an old wives' tale.

There's not enough difference in those factors to be detrimental.

The speed difference however, is very noticeable.
 
SSDs are still waaaay too expensive. I have had good luck with the Seagate Momentus drives. I have a pair of the 7200 rpm drives in my laptop in RAID 0 and I have no complaints about the noise. Adding the second one did add a little heat, but just having 1 wasn't noticeably hot. I also get the same battery life with 2 as I did with one, so there doesn't seem to be any good reason not to go 7200. Here is a link to some. The 320 GB looks nice, is it wasn't sold out.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=50001305%2040000380&Manufactory=1305&SubCategory=380&SpeTabStoreType=0
 
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