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suggest brand for 2.5" HDD from my laptop

2 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/suggest-brand-for-2-5-hdd-from-my-laptop.186725/

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Alive_Hunter Original post #1
Sep 1, 2014 at 6:32 PM
suggest brand for 2.5" HDD from my laptop

I need to purchase a new sata 2.5" HDD from my laptop.
500 gb
Pls suggest which brand to go for?

looking for good quality and long life with high warranty yrs.

Some say that Hitachi HDD are very gud...!

pls suggest.

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Hitachi Travelstar 1 TB Laptop Internal Hard Drive (1TB 5400 rpm) - Hitachi : Flipkart.com

Hitachi Travelstar 500 GB Laptop Internal Hard Drive (Z7K500 500GB 7200 rpm) - Hitachi : Flipkart.com

why is there such a difference .... in price between 500Gb & 1TB Hitachi
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whitestar_999 #2
Sep 1, 2014 at 11:08 PM
because 500gb is 7200rpm(faster) compared to 1tb 5400rpm(slower) but do note that most laptops by default comes with 5400rpm hdd so it is not like it is very slow.unless you really need fast hdd(like some serious gaming,photo editing,video editing,3d rendering,copy pasting dozens of gb every day etc) a 5400rpm hdd is fine as a storage device.