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

[AthlonRob]

Kurt Sussman wrote:
> Sorry, I got the Hitachi. I was going to get the Seagate, but I wanted
> 80G and there was one other factor that I can't recall right now. I
> remembered the Seagate because it scored the best in the reviews I read.
> The Hitachi was not far behind.

I own a Deathstar - I won't buy another IBM/Hitachi.  That's just me,
though.

> I was looking for something that would be faster AND keep the power
> requirements about the same (or better). The Toshiba didn't benchmark
> significantly better in spite of the cache, and I think it was noisier,
> though I can't remember exactly what its shortcomings were. I've had
> Toshiba drives fail on me in the past, and while my hardware failure
> list is not a statistically significant sample, I have not seen failures
> in Seagate or IBM/Hitachi drives.

Do you recall where you found these reviews?  I haven't seen decent
laptop hard drive reviews anywhere out there.. a nice up-to-date
comparison review sure would be nice, though.

Rob