Which 750GB 7200RPM drives?

Hello everyone,

Which of the following two laptop hard drives do you recommend? They are very similar in specification. There is a $20 difference in cost between them. Would that worth the warranty difference?

Western Digital Scorpio Black 750GB, 7200rpm, SATA 3GB/s, 16MB Cache, 5-Years Warranty, WD7500BPKT ($110)

or

Seagate Momentus 750GB, 7200rpm, SATA 3Gb/s, 16MB Cache, 3-Years Warranty, ST9750420AS ($90)

Thanks!

 

The $20 difference is worth much more for the performance and reliability you will get from the WD drive vs. the Seagate.

The WD Scorpio Black is my only recommended mechanical HDD as of a few weeks ago. (When a 4th Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid croaked).

 

Thank you. Based on you comment, I picked up the WD Scorpio Black.

Blessings.

 

Great choice! You really can't go wrong with a Western Digital drive. I would have recommended the same one as Tiller did.

 

Wow. That is one incredibly reliable drive then lol.

 

The drive arrived yesterday from Amazon. I'm not sure if it is normal but it is twice as loud at idle as the drive it replaces. I'm glad the drive has a five year warranty because I can feel it vibrate... the motor must be very durable!

I have another question... I have two USB2.0 2.5mm enclosures. I connected the drive to one and try to access it using both Vista and Windows 7. The operating systems saw the drive but I was not able to access it. The same for the other enclosure. I can see the drive, but when I click on it, I get an error message. This is after I initialize the drive and format it. It just showed up as "Local Disk..." with no size information. I wonder if this is a problem with the drive or the enclosure itself? I have no problems with 2.5" 640GB drives using those enclosures.

I used Acronis to restore the backup partition to the new drive from the old drive. Acronis hangs at 9% for hours on end on both operating systems.

Should I go out and buy another enclosure?

Thanks.

 

It may very well be the enclosure, but I would be more concerned with the HDD vibrating.

RMA for a better behaved one. (And you'll also know if it was simply the enclosure or the drive that was at fault).

 

Thank you. It may be the drive. I decided to just install the drive on my new laptop and restore the partition using a boot CD. It took a little bit longer to restore the partition. The system was very sluggish compared to the older drive. When I resize the partition using Euseus Partition Manager, it hangs the computer at the 8% mark. It is still running and has been at 8% the past couple of hours. The hard disk light is blinking, but nothing happens. I've done this often with other drives and resizing takes half an hour at max, especially when the drive is almost empty.

I will probably return it tomorrow and exchange it for a replacement.

Blessings.

 

Make sure they do a return and not an exchange (you still want to have the option to return the next one too if it is from the same batch).

Hope the new one works as well as mine do.

 

Just a quick question, what's the difference between a return and an exchange? If it is a return, I will need to re-order?

Thank you.