500GB Laptop drive shoot out!

[Machinesworking]

I have a 500 GB WD Scorpio in my Dell XPS1530 laptop and it's performance is excellent.

Yeah that's what makes this a tough one, WD Scorpio laptop HDs are well solid HDs.
The 4GB SSD chip in the Seagate could either work really well with Live, or be next to useless.
The user has no control over what it learns so it's up to the programmers whether it "learns" the first song you load into it or if it learns only a tiny chunk of the data like Kontakt does with tiny bits of RAM for disk streaming. Dunno?
If the price was the same for both I would automatically jump on the XT, but the 500GB WD Scorpio is $40 cheaper.

[oblique strategies]

Storage Review:

Leaderboard - Best Hard Drives & SSDs
http://www.storagereview.com/best_drives

Storage Reference Guide:
http://www.storagereview.com/storage_reference_guide

Cool info, but they do no comparison between the Scorpio and the XT, which is my main question.

The XT just went on sale, so I'm even more tempted.

Have you checked to see if they have reviews of the models you're interested in their reviews section?

[djod]

Its not 500, its 750GB...

http://www.hitachigst.com/internal-driv ... star-7k750

[oblique strategies]

Both of the drives in the original post are reviewed on the site I posted:

Seagate Momentus XT Review:
http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_momentus_xt_review

Western Digital Scorpio Black 500GB Review:
http://www.storagereview.com/western_di ... wd5000bekt

[djdoza]

I Just installed a Hitachi Travelstar 500gb 7200 RPM on my MacBook Pro 2010, so far works fine and quicker than the stock harddrive that came with it.

[Machinesworking]

Both of the drives in the original post are reviewed on the site I posted:

Seagate Momentus XT Review:
http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_momentus_xt_review

Western Digital Scorpio Black 500GB Review:
http://www.storagereview.com/western_di ... wd5000bekt

Thanks, I read through these before. Here's another.

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.a ... hard+drive

This one makes me think more and more about the XT.

[glitchrock-buddha]

Thanks, I read through these before. Here's another.

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.a ... hard+drive

This one makes me think more and more about the XT.

Wow, it's really surprising to see that both 500gb 7200 rpm drives gave better battery life than the fujitsu 320gb 5400 rpm drive. I always thought a benefit of 5400 drives was that they were less draining on battery life. Maybe this isn't such a big deal anymore?

[Machinesworking]

Yeah battery life has never been much of a concern of mine, if it lasts two hours I'm good.
Great to know progress is being made though.