Best Hard Drive HDD Options 750GB/ 640GB/ Momentus XT 500G?

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  1. crashnburn

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    Best Hard Drive HDD Options 750GB/ 640GB/ Momentus XT 500G?

    I'd love to get an SSD but I typically have a lot more storage requirement and planning multiple OSes on partitions.

    So I am looking at a 9.5 mm HDD that will seat in T61 & X61T (Both Middleton BIOS flashed for SATA 2). I might use it in both now & then.

    Since 750 G is the highest.. in 9.5 mm I'd prefer that as long as performance & reliability of disks is fine.
    I believe WD, Hitachi (Not easily available on market online these days) Seagate & Toshiba (not great reviews) have 750 G.

    Ofcourse WD 640 Blue is pretty popular in general and so is the Hitachi 500GB 7200 among thinkpadders.

    So recent / updated thoughts, experiences, recommendations and/or threads of interest that have relevant info to help me decide.
     
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    Best combination of storage capacity and performance is the Western Digital Scorpio Black 750 GB.
     
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    I would go with either an SSD or a Seagate Momentus Hybrid XT.

    Both of them perform leaps and bounds over traditional hdds in my experience.
     
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    Was thinking Momentus XT but seems to be getting mixed reliability reports.
     
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    WD 75000BPKT
    Western Digital Scorpio Black 750gb
     
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    Depends on your usage. The momentus xt is great for faster windows startup and speediness on commonly used applications, but the western digital scorpio black will be more well-round. If you need more space, then go for the wd. If you want a little more speed, the momentus xt
     
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    Went with WD 750 Scorpio Black.
    Tempted for SSD but might wait it out till next year.
     
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    how do you like the WD Scorpio Black?
    I find it's very very fast, and I get no vibs
     
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    Ive got the Momentus XT 500G now for about 6months and it's been rock solid. Most of the problems I do hear around are with Apple users.
     
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