Am getting increasingly fed up with the relatively poor performance of my HP DM1's 250GB 5400 rpm laptop hard drive, and want a new one.
Capacity is not a big issue, since mostly it's for internet browsing, and i hook up to my NAS to stream media / save documents etc.
It is running Win 7 (currently 64bit), plus Ubuntu 10.10 dual booted (more precisely its via Wubi currently as an extended test, but it will be uninstalled then properly dual-booted with the new drive).
Budget - not absolutely fixed, although the £50 area feels alot nicer than the £100 area.
I want the best of all worlds (naturally) and dont want my currently great battery life to be reduced (as much as can be helped), but recognise that a 7200 speed drive will affect it a little, however figure that keeping to one or two platters should help. That said, i'm not sure how many platters the following drives have.
My options seem to be the following:
2.5" HDD's
250GB Seagate Momentus XT 7200rpm £33.51
320GB Western Dig Scorpio Black 2.5", £41.10
500GB Seagate Momentus 7200.4 2.5" £49.82
Hybrid
Seagate Momentus XT 320GB £75.09 (SR review)
SSD's
OCZ Vertex MLC 60GB on Today Only for £88.11
Corsair 60GB Force Series MLC the same price.
After some soul-searching, i'm leaning towards the hybrid Momentus.
Any thoughts are welcome before i commit my hard-earned cash![]()


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) and the system isn't at all sluggish with quick application access, even Poser 6, which has quite a long load time, matches my desktop system (a 1TB 7200.12 and XP Pro64) and snappy file access (battery life isn't great but I'd probably get better battery life out of it if I didn't run it full tilt all the time 
