[PLUG] 2.5-inch drive (for laptop) recommendations?

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Tue Aug 23 03:43:46 UTC 2005


AthlonRob <athlonrob at axpr.net> wrote:

> Kurt Sussman wrote:
> > I just put a Seagate 5400 RPM 80G drive in my notebook, and it's like a
> > new computer. OOo starts in 12 seconds; it used to take almost 30.
> > 
> > It was about $130 from newegg.com.
> 
> I'm looking at Newegg right now and don't see a Seagate drive in the
> 80GB size... but do see 60GB drives.  Close enough for me.
> 
> However, you stated you did some research before purchase - why'd you go
> with the Seagate as opposed to the Toshiba drives which offer a full
> 16MB of cache at a lower cost?  Is the motor/firmware/whatever in the
> Seagate considerably better or is it just Seagate's good name that was
> the deciding factor?
> 
> I'm looking very hard at the 80GB Toshiba 5400RPM drive with 16MB of
> cache right now.  :-)
> 

FWIW, Seagate drives have a 5 year warranty, versus 3 years for the Toshiba.
Of course, you probably saw that already.

galen



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