Hitachi vs. Segate vs. WD Scorpio

[Appleboy1717]

Hey,
I got my Macbook Pro replaced by Apple with the current Gen 15" 2.66, and they upgraded the drive for free, so I wanted the 7200 drive. Apple puts in the Seagate. It is most definitely faster, and seems to cut the battery a little bit (obviously never had it without the drive, but if I have the screen on much, its about 4 hours). One thing I do notice is if I have the drive on a hard surface, you can definitely notice the vibrations from the drive. But is is way fast, so I don't mind it at all. I have some seagate and western digitals drives (external...and I am very happy with them.
I have the Low power 1tb which is 5900rpm. I know odd speed, but it is was faster than the samsung low power 1.5tb I have.
Then I have two 7200rpm drives in the g5 which work great. I have a western digital portable 1tb drive and its great to have all that storage with a usb powered drive, but if I touch it at all is disconnects, which really bothers me.
(the two externals I have are iomega from radio shack. 100 for a 1tb seagate drive with an enclosure is pretty cheap.)

 

[pandabearjohnso]

7K500 ? or 7k200 ? So shall I just go with Hitachi then? And if I do so, what is the best inclosure to handle my current HD with either USB 2.0 or Firewire support?

Thanks,

I've bought a couple of drive and enclosure kits from Other World Computing in the past year. They sell an empty enclosure + the new drive + some software for cloning your current drive as a kit. Free third party software is also available (Carbon Copy Cloner, for example).

Here is a link to their Hitachi page:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/Hitachi/SATA/7200RPM

I put a 7200k 320GB Seagate SATA drive in my wife's older MB Pro. It works great, no noise or vibration issues. I've never done a speed test so can't comment on that.

Let us know what you decide. I'm looking for a new 500GB for my 2008 MB Pro.

Cheers

 

[ssmed]

Seagate v Scorpio Black

I have both 320 GB Scorpio Black (7200rpm) in one 15" MBP and the 500 GB Momentus (7200rpm) in another 15" MBP (both early 2008); I notice no difference in speed in either photoshop or database use. I have had no problems with noise or vibration, but these are not in unibody machines so that may be the difference with others experience.
HTH
SS

 

[PDE]

7K500 ? or 7k200 ? So shall I just go with Hitachi then? And if I do so, what is the best inclosure to handle my current HD with either USB 2.0 or Firewire support?

Thanks,

The model is Hitachi travelstar 7k500 -- the same one you listed. I think you'd be happy with the 7K500 and probably the WD as well. As for enclosures, I would follow the advice and go to OWC at macsales.com. They have high quality enclosures with good chipsets inside. Highly recommended.

Good luck