hard drive question

CyberGhost

I'm planning to buy a new hard drive for my laptop - for performance

I'm stuck between

7200RPM / 16MB Buffer / 50GB

and

7200RPM / 8MB Buffer / 60GB


I was interested if the additional 8MB buffer will make a difference? and make up for those 10GBs in 8MB buffer drive

does the additional buffer make a difference?

joePC

Do you have a link to that hdd drive, I've never heard of a 16mb buffer on a laptop hdd.

As for your question the 16mb buffer would offer better preformance so I would choose that over 10Gb's

Thanks JoePC

CyberGhost

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/insidecomputer/to507229ladr.html

Dempsey

First I heard of 16Mb cache on a hard drive myself. Could you quote the prices between the two? Personally I'd got for the one with the 8Mb of cache because Id reckon the performance increase due to the the extra cache wouldnt be enough against a extra 10Gb of disk space.

CyberGhost

they are about the same price 250$

Dempsey

As it says on the website you linked "8MB is considered extreme for most desktop drives!" so where does 16Mb come in? Get the 60Gb 7200rpm 8Mb cache one. The more I look at it the more I think the 16Mb is a gimmick.

CyberGhost

these drive seem to overheat a lot!

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-69381

I think I'm gonna go with 60GB drive

Dempsey

Get Western Digital or Maxtor

CyberGhost

they don't do 7200 RPM for lappies

Dempsey

Hitachi Travelstar 60GB 7200RPM IDE ATA/100

Check out reviews on that so, I'm not up to speed on Laptop drives

CyberGhost

yep, that's the drive!

Thanks Dempsey