Thread: Looking to buy a new laptop hard drive, wanting opinions

i have toshiba satellite laptop i've been wanting few upgrades to. number 1 hard drive. has 250gb sata drive in running @ 5400 rpm. want double capacity , @ 7200 rpm, 16 mb cache. pretty basic specs, between $70 , $100. i'm looking energy efficient piece of hardware.

so, opinions on energy efficient laptop hard drive these specifications? brand should go with? seagate, western digital, samsung, hitachi, else entirely...?

thanks!

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i have toshiba satellite laptop i've been wanting few upgrades to. number 1 hard drive. has 250gb sata drive in running @ 5400 rpm. want double capacity , @ 7200 rpm, 16 mb cache. pretty basic specs, between $70 , $100. i'm looking energy efficient piece of hardware.

so, opinions on energy efficient laptop hard drive these specifications? brand should go with? seagate, western digital, samsung, hitachi, else entirely...?

thanks!

i put 1 in netbook , have been happy it. dense platters, large cache, fast spindle speed. reads , writes consistently ~100mb/s

http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82e16822152236

real world benchmarks -

code:

wizard@wizard-netbook:~$ sudo -i [sudo] password wizard: root@wizard-netbook:~# hdparm -tt /dev/sda  /dev/sda:  timing cached reads:   1226 mb in  2.00 seconds = 613.03 mb/sec  timing buffered disk reads: 312 mb in  3.01 seconds = 103.78 mb/sec  root@wizard-netbook:~# dd bs=1m count=2560 if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test conv=fdatasync && rm -rf /tmp/test 2560+0 records in 2560+0 records out 2684354560 bytes (2.7 gb) copied, 27.2035 s, 98.7 mb/s  root@wizard-netbook:~# ./seeker /dev/sda1 seeker v2.0, 2007-01-15, http://www.linuxinsight.com/how_fast_is_your_disk.html benchmarking /dev/sda1 [29297mb], wait 30 seconds.............................. results: 105 seeks/second, 9.44 ms random access time

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