My old 500gig HDD just died, and I want to buy another one ASAP. SSD is out of the question since I'm short on cash. But I'm not knowledgable about HDDs, so can anyone tell me what all parameters actually matter in HDDs and what all are marketing gimmicks? RPM? Cache? Z-Heigh
Take a look at this: http://www.hgst.com/hard-drives/mobile-drives/7mm-thin-and-light-drives/travelstar-z5k500
My current one which failed was this : http://storage.toshiba.eu/cms/en/hdd/computing/product_detail.jsp?productid=340
I hope the fact that the HGST is 7mm and my current one is 9.5mm won't be an issue, else I'd have to buy a new casing as well.