Help choosing hard drive upgrade, seagate 7200.4 500gb or we

BlueLaser · Post by **BlueLaser** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:11 am

Trying to decide which would be the best for a laptop upgrade. The two that I am looking at are:

seagate 7200.4 500gb 7200rpm st9500420as
western digital scorpio blue 500gb 5400rpm wd5000bevt

I want to know about each ones:

speed
effect on my battery
how hot it gets
does it make noise
does it vibrate

I am interested in getting the best one overall.
Please give specs and numbers.

Thanks

kal001 · Post by **kal001** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:11 am

The choice is yours. But Caviar Blue seems to be faster in real world usage. And better serve in multitasking environment.

bradc · Post by **bradc** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 1:21 pm

Why not Caviar Black 320gb at 7200rpm? Faster than either of those drives you listed, or do you really really want 500gb?

confusion · Post by **confusion** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:38 pm

The terminology is confusing me making me live up to my name.

I think you two mean Scorpio and not Caviar? OP asked for laptop drives.

kal001 · Post by **kal001** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 10:56 pm

Sorry. I meant Scorpio Blue. My fault.

I would go WD5000BEVT. It is much larger than 7500rpm WD3200BJKT, and i has almost same performance.

bradc · Post by **bradc** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 11:36 am

My bad, I meant this drive. http://www.westerndigital.com/en/produc ... riveid=477

Stupid naming schemes! As above, if you don't need 500gb then that hard drive is the quickest.