[max40watt]

I have a smaller 60GB Hitachi 7k60 and would love to move to a larger internal drive. However, I'd rather not give up the nice access speeds the 7k60 provides. I've looked around for larger 7200rpm IDE drives, but could find nothing other than a 100gb Hitachi, which for the cost, probably wouldn't be worth the upgrade. I've also come across this posting and a few others that mention the WD Scorpio 250GB and the Samsung 160GB as the 'fastest' drives for IDE notebooks. But it seems from this own posting's tests as well as my own HD marks that the Hitachi's are getting 15ms response times compared to the others 17 and 18ms access times while having higher sustained read/write speeds. Certainly the higher read/write speeds are nice for moving large files, but that doesn't happen too terribly often, and when it does, I don't mind waiting a bit longer to move a big file around whereas the access times directly affect boot up times, looking around a files, loading programs, etc. So unless there's something I'm missing it seems that my 7k60 w/ 15ms access times should be about 13% faster in day to day usage with running programs, booting up, looking around at files, etc. I hope I have missed something, that I'm wrong, and can upgrade to the nice larger drives, which is why I'm posting here. Thanks for your time, and any extra clarification on the topic would be great,

Ryan