7200rpm Hard Drive with least possible amount of vibration?

[swingerofbirch]

Has anyone been able to find a Hitachi Travelstar 7K750 for sale? If they came out in Q1 2011 they should be available, but I can't seem to find them for sale. If you search on Amazon it will bring you to the 7K500 models. I don't need the latest and greatest, but I figure I might as well buy the latest model if the prices are similar.

 

[Mac-key]

Has anyone been able to find a Hitachi Travelstar 7K750 for sale? If they came out in Q1 2011 they should be available, but I can't seem to find them for sale. If you search on Amazon it will bring you to the 7K500 models. I don't need the latest and greatest, but I figure I might as well buy the latest model if the prices are similar.

bhphoto has got 'em

 

[swingerofbirch]

bhphoto has got 'em

What service! Thanks for the fast reply. I had searched their site, but when I searched for Travelstar 7K750 nothing came up. I was actually looking for the 500 GB model--you don't think you could do your magic again and tell me if BH Photo has that model? Or Amazon for that matter? I don't know why, but when I search the site at BH Photo I couldn't find what you were able to! On Amazon I can find the 7K750 750 GB model but not the 500 GB model (a model shows up that is 500 GB when you search on Amazon but if you look closely it's the 7K500 model).

Thanks.

 

[Mac-key]

What service! Thanks for the fast reply. I had searched their site, but when I searched for Travelstar 7K750 nothing came up. I was actually looking for the 500 GB model--you don't think you could do your magic again and tell me if BH Photo has that model? Or Amazon for that matter? I don't know why, but when I search the site at BH Photo I couldn't find what you were able to! On Amazon I can find the 7K750 750 GB model but not the 500 GB model (a model shows up that is 500 GB when you search on Amazon but if you look closely it's the 7K500 model).

Thanks.

here ya go

 

[swingerofbirch]

here ya go

Thanks very much again. I think that model though, like the 500 GB model from Amazon, may be the 7K500 in that it advertises the shock protection which the 7K750 does not advertise and it also doesn't list the 4K sector size the 7K750 has. I may end up just going with the 500 GB 7K500 model because it should be more than enough for my needs. The 500 GB 7K750 model seems almost non-existent except on Hitachi's corporate site.

Thanks again!

 

[Darien Red Sox]

Installed a WD scorpio black 750 GB 7200rpm to go with Lion, vibrates less than the original Seagate 7200RPM drive on my mid2009 17" MBP

 

[BJonson]

The WD Black 750 gets a 120 mb/s on read and write operations. That is just phenomenal for a laptop HD. I used AJA system test.

 

[swingerofbirch]

I went ahead and bought the Hitachi 7K500 500 GB model for $61 from Amazon. Im excited--I haven't installed Lion yet on my MBP and will do a clean install when I get the new drive. Lion plus the new drive will make my old MBP my "new" back to school computer. And I'll even clean the dirt (food and hand moisturizer) off of it.

 

[jmharrington]

The WD Black 750 gets a 120 mb/s on read and write operations. That is just phenomenal for a laptop HD. I used AJA system test.

is this the drive you purchased ? http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ..._Digital_WD7500BPKT_2_5_WD_Scorpio_Black.html

i recenly picked up a macbook pro last week and i went with the low end 15" model - i already replaced the ram with a great deal for 8gigs on newegg , next step will be hard drive. Id like to replace it sooner than later and have less information to transfer over.

thanks in advance

 

[BAC5.2]

My momentus drive has really smoothed out over the past few weeks. It's quiet, smooth, and fast. Can't ask for more. Especially at $99.