320g 2.5" drives: WD Scorpio Black vs Hitachi 7K320 ??

tbessie · Post by **tbessie** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:01 am

Hi all...

I bought a Hitachi 7k320 some time ago for my laptop, but found it produced excessive vibration which I could easily feel buzzing under my hands while I worked.

Just recently, I bought a WD Scorpio Black to try out, and it seems to produce far less vibration in normal use.

I've always used Hitachi drives for almost all my hard drive needs, and they've never failed or caused me any issues (aside from the aforementioned vibration).

Can anyone speak to reliability between these two drives specifically, or Hitachi vs. WD drives in general? I'd hate to start using the WD drive, only for it to be the first hard drive ever to fail on me.

- Tim

tbessie · Post by **tbessie** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:32 pm

Hmm... nobody has compared these two?

- Tim

thejamppa · Post by **thejamppa** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:57 pm

WD is good brand. The problem with GP ( Green Power ) seems to be first in long time. But generally WD drives are reliable, fast and quiet. I am getting next week 320 GB WD Caviar SE 16MB myself to change my 160GB overly high pitch whining Seagate out.

I am not that sure of 2,5" drives but what I've read about peoples comments about drivers, WD seems to be superior to Hitachi nowdays.

larsolsen · Post by **larsolsen** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:53 pm

don't know about hitachi 2.5 drives, but i have a wd 80gb 2.5 drive that is quiet, fast enough and stable. it has been running in my notebook for nearly 3 years now without problems.

Aris · Post by **Aris** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:28 pm

samsung and WD seem to be the two leaders in consumer grade HDD's now a days. Both are good quality and quiet.

And since samsung is basically the only mainstream consumer storage manufacturer with their feet on the ground/running with SSD technology, with WD just now starting to get its feet wet, it looks like samsung is going to be the leader in future tech storage technology also.

tbessie · Post by **tbessie** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:06 pm

Thanks for the replies, folks!

- Tim