What is the best 2.5 inch harddrive ?

Question

What is the best 2.5 inch harddrive with the size of 160 GB ?

Answer 1

This one should suit you. Samsung IDE 2.5"
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-038-SA
Thats £105.

Overclockers also have a Seagate, but that'll set you back £125.

Answer 2

It's hard to find a site that compares quality and speed of hard drives alone, but in my experience with laptop drives I've found that Hitachi is usually a quality brand to look for. Most laptops don't let you choose the brand drive they include. Instead they use various brands and you could get any one of them. I've included a site that compares the performance of some Seagate, Toshiba, and Hitachi drives. As you can see, the Hitachi out-performs the Seagate of the same drive speed in every match up.

I currently have a Seagate 100GB 7K and it's failing after only a year of use. In the past I had a Seagate and Toshiba fail and when they were replaced by a Hitachi drive the Hitachi outlasted them by years. This is just my experience, yours may differ, but I hope this helps.

Answer 3

Seagate Momentus 5400.3, should be the fastest 160GB drive.

Depends what you mean by best, really. The lowest power consumption would probably be the Fujitsu MHV2160BT.

Depends if you want SATA or ATA, as well.

Answer 4

I can recommend a good 7.5 inch hard drive, but not any 2.5 inch hard drives.

Answer 5

IBM for sure. Toshiba drives tend to get rather warm and as a result are less reliable.

Answer 6

I would say the best one would be a hard drive that runs atleast 7200RPM. Alll hard drive brand names are about the same its teh rpm that matter. The rpm tell you how fast the hard drive could acess your data.