I need a fast, reliable, and power efficient 720GB 7200rpm 2.5" HDD.
My ThinkPad's Toshiba HDD has gone to crap. Not worth having the warranty people mess with it since the built-in Lenovo diagnostic technically passes. I'll just replace it myself. I want something fast, reliable, and power efficient. My Toshiba is crushing battery life on my laptop right now. I don;t care too much about noise, but I sit in rooms with lots of people often, so it can't be too bad. I have heard that some HDDs have a loud sound when the carriage goes to the home position off of the disk. The ThinkPad uses an accelerometer and does this to prevent damage to the disk with large movement.
I've had horrible luck over the years with Seagate drives. I'm not buying another.
I've had to replace lots of my friends' stock Samsung drives, so I'd like to avoid them.
Toshiba/Fujitsu drives are off the list - this one barely lasted a year.
I've had great luck with HGST drives. However, they don't seem to be that fast,
I've never actually bought a WD 2.5" drive. I've heard that they're loud and inefficient though.
If there's another brand not listed here, please enlighten me.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! I got 3 BSODs today, all HDD related (yes I ran multiple bootable drive repairs to no avail and the SMART status shows failure), so I'm kinda in a hunch. I could die any day now.
hgst=hitachi and is owned by western digital but somehow has a slight edge on failure rates. im using a hitachi now and it's quiet usually except when i boot on linux.
The problem with SSDs is the cost. I recently got a 128GB OCZ for $80. It's not doing so well. For 720GB, I'd have to get something really expensive for it to be that reliable. The HDD of this type would be around $60-$80, so if there is a good SSD for that price and 750GB, please tell me.
I'll probably just go with the HGST since I know that it's good. The WD Black seems to draw a lot of power, but it does have a fantastic 400+ Mb/s read rate.
Well, the HGST 750GB drive is proving difficult to find on Amazon. The only one that I could find had 3 reviews and wasn't available from Amazon. Looks like I'll have to get a WD:
**Why is the faster one cheaper and the slower, older one more expensive? **The slower has more reviews though (probably because it's older), but the reviews on both are positive.
I know, but that was (and probably still is) the only affordable option. I want something reliable but not ultra expensive. I think I'll a really good run for my money with this WD HDD. It's pretty darn fast for a 2.5" HDD.
Sadly I need at least 750GB, and there's a big price jump on those between 500GB and 750GB.
I just read that that WD performance drive has atrocious power consumption. What is the difference between these two HGST drives? Both are HGST 1TB 2.5" 7200rpm 32Mb cache drives:
Are you really sure you can't just live with 480gbs with like a flash drive or 2? Or just turning your current hard drive into an external drive with an enclosure?
Does your laptop have an mSATA slot? - -
Your only combo drive option would be the WD Black2, it was on sale for around $100 a few months but I guess it must be out of production or something because the price is now crazy
I don't even think it worked that well as it was like a crazy science experiment, also you have to make sure your laptop would fit a 9mm drive
WD BlackĀ² was always this expensive as far as i remeber .
And my suggestion: buy a 2.5" external enclosure and put a 256 gb ssd in your laptop SSD use less power and are more reliable especialy in a laptop when using a external hdd it will only be powered if you plug it in.
I have an ocz agility 3 in my server that's been running for over 4 years. I also have about a half dozen other ocz SSDs which are all dead. There was a time a few years ago where they were failing left and right. After that they bought Everest and started doing their own controllers but I don't think they really recovered from it. I'm surprised they're still around to be honest.
Well, I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T440p. I have long since planned for expansion. Actually, I was planning on getting an SSD that could fit in the bay that the CD/DVD drive is in or a tiny M.2 NGFF card (it has the really tiny slot where the GSM module would normally go, but I found a compatibility list).
The problem is that the OEM drive failed and now this will be what I can spend my money on. On my old computer with the 128GB OCZ SSD I had a very speedy Buffalo 500GB USB3 drive I would carry around, but I came to hate that.
I went ahead and ordered the 1TB HGST drive. I really need this soon. My goal is to either get a little M.2 drive and use Intel Rapid Storage to make a hybrid drive later if I need more speed and reliability down the road.
Eventually I will also buy the SATA 2.5" bay for my ThinkPad and either move the HDD to that slot or put an SSD there. I'll get a SATA to USB adapter so that I can continue to use the CD/DVD drive as an external one. I'll probably move Windows to the new SSD and put that in the main bay and then load LVM (so I can resize the partitions easily later) on the HDD with GRUB and probably OpenSUSE (unless I change my mind by then) on the first/second partitions. The third partition will be NTFS (for Windows so that will be mutually accessible in Linux and Windows) and will have stuff like music that I don't need on the SSD.