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I need to replace the hard drive in my laptop (it supports SATA, not SATA II). I'm thinking of a Western Digital - either Scorpio Blue or Scorpio Black. Is it worth paying the extra money for a Black? Is there much difference in speed? Or should I spend the extra money on a 500GB Blue instead of a 320GB Black? Are there any other hard drives in this price range which might be better than the Western Digitals?
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The difference in max bandwidth between a SATA and SATA II drive won't make a difference unless you're going SSD. They are 100% backwards compatible. The newer SATA II drives will be faster generally, not because of the bus speed, but because of the advances in drive making technology. If you are concerned about speed, I would choose a newer SATA II 7200RPM drive. If you are really concerned about speed, I would get an SSD -- though you will be limited by the SATA I bus if you spring for a high end Intel SSD. | |||
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that's pretty much a no-brainer :) the Scorpio Black is most certainly the better choice, it's faster (7200 rpm vs 5400 rpm) and it has double cache memory (16 MB vs 8 MB). however, if disk space is not an issue, consider a Solid State Disk for performance and robustness. | |||||
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