Samsung HM250JI or Scorpio WD2500BEVS for MBP pentabooting?

DrCR · Post by **DrCR** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:29 am

Looking for a hard drive for the sata notebook I have coming in for uni this fall. I'm going to be triple booting natively plus a couple of virtual machines a the least, so I'm going to need a quite a bit of space lol.

Two options I'm considering:
Western Digital Scorpio WD2500BEVS 250GB 5.4k SATA150 OEM -- $189.99
SAMSUNG Spinpoint M Series HM250JI 250GB 5.4k SATA150 OEM -- $209.99

Any advise? I'm getting in five HM120JI (SATA) for my uni, so hopefully listening to those will give me a first hand idea of the noise character of the Spinpoint M series. Oh, and if the noise character are rather close the drive with even just the slightest more reliablity will get the nod. I have no clue on the Scropio's reliablity.

Thanks,
DrCR

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A5N8X, 3500+ single-core Manchester, 2x512MB Corsair XMS, MSI 7600GT
S-12 430W, HR-05, Scythe Mime, VF900 modded with Scythe 80x25mm. Dual D12SL-12
WD1200JB, WD3200JB, HD501LJ

DrCR · Post by **DrCR** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:32 pm

StorageReview.com has a nice review of the WD2500BEVS here.

A pity that's it's power efficency is not as good as I had expected.

I have not been able to find a review of the HM250JI.

Any thoughts mates? Perhaps I'm beening really indecisive here, well, yes, I am, but every time I'm about to pull the trigger on one I start eyeing the other lol.

Two main concerns: Samsung quality variance, the WD's overall mediocre performance and effency and to come extent reliablity.

DrCR · Post by **DrCR** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:52 pm

I found the Western Digital Scorpio 250GB WD2500BEVSto be quieter in my MBP (got rid of the HM250JI I had in there for a bit). The WD2500BEVS a bit cheaper too so it's a win win. I also traded in the HM250JI as there are reported issues with it in MacBookPros. link

I'm loving the HD501LJ in my desktop pc though.

DrCR

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A5N8X, 3500+ single-core Manchester, 2x512MB Corsair XMS, MSI 7600GT
S-12 430W, HR-05, Scythe Mime, VF900 modded with Scythe 80x25mm. Dual D12SL-12 Yate Loons
WD1200JB, WD3200JB, HD501LJ
Dual,independant WinXP installs via Grub hiding, VectorLinux 5.1.1SOHO
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MacBook Pro Santa Rosa, 2.2GHz, WD Scorpio 250GB WD2500BEVS, Pending Tuxized Apple Logo Mod, Pending MBP Penta-Booting via only partially matched GPT/MBR.