Hard disk option for MBP

[AldusJ]

Hi,

I am planning to get a MBP which will be used mostly for Aperture, Netflix streaming, XCode, and random surfing, email, etc.
Should I go for space (750GB, 5400 rpm) or speed (500GB, 7200rpm)?
Would the speed make a big difference for the applications I am considering?
For what would it make a difference?

Thank you!

P.S. SSD option is too expensive for me at the moment, since I would need the 512GB one for sure (I am thinking about the photo library getting huge)

 

[bozz2006]

Hard for us to say which one is better. Pretty much depends on how much space you need. Some people don't have much music, videos, and photos so they'd never need 750GB. If you do need that much space, I'd go with the 750. Having used a lot of different notebook HDDs, I don't see much difference between 5400RPM drives and 7200RPM drives. Not a real perceivable difference anyway.

 

[miles01110]

It really doesn't matter at all.

 

[Wicked1]

I have the Seagate momentus XT 500GB Hybrid and I really like it, however there are some folks who had a bad experience, but for me it works really well and I paid $119.

It is 7200RPM, with 32 MB Cache 500 GB and has a 4 GB SSD Partition but the drive self manages that partition. Read the specs on Seagate's website if you are interested.