Seagate Momentus 7200.1 ST980825A 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6 2.5" Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Upgraded 30GB 5400RPM OEM drive in a 3 year old Latitude last week. Clean install was a breeze. This upgrade has cut my boot time in half but then I got rid of some imbedded junk by doing a clean installation. Programs load much faster. Very fast drive. Quiet. No Problems !!! No issues at all.

Cons: None at this point.

Overall Review: Newegg always ships quickly. Used FedEx Saver and it arrived a day early. Thanks Newegg and FedEx.

Pros: 7200 RPM reasonably priced. Noticeable difference in speed vs the 5400 RPM that this drive replaced. 5 year warranty

Cons: NONE

Overall Review: Easy install

Pros: super fast and halfway easy install. i went from a 4200 rpm to the 7200 and the performance gain was astronomical!

Cons: it came with a bent pin that i didn't notice until i tried to install it and messed up the ide connector in my laptop a bit. once i fixed that it was great!

Overall Review: check the ide connector pins! i had to tear it down to the motherboard to fix the connector and its usually fun to do that but not with my old laptop and its worthless assembly

Pros: 7200 rpm means that it's fast, almost as fast as desktop drives. I bought this to replace the original Hitachi Travelstar 40GB 5400 disk in my Dell Inspiron 600m laptop which crashed after 3 years. Installed and works perfectly. But there is a small price to pay in terms of noise and heat.

Cons: The drive is slightly noiser than the 5400 rpm Travelstar that it replaced. The bigger problem was that it run slightly hotter, which caused the fan to run at full speed while working on battery power. The extra noise of the fan bothered me so much that I could not use it any longer. I ended up replacing it with a 5400 rpm Toshiba 60 GB 5400 drive, which was quieter and cool enough that it didn't trigger the fan.

Overall Review: It's a good drive, just be aware that it is slightly noiser than a 5400 rpm drive, and slightly wamer.

Pros: Very fast drive. Loads up Vista 3x faster than my oem 4200rpm drive. It is surprisingly much quieter too. I thought it would be much louder since it spins much faster. However, the opposite is true. I guess some OEM hard drives are slow and loud...ie garbage.

Cons: None yet.

Overall Review: Very good bang for the buck. Made my computer much quicker when starting and loading programs.

Pros: My old 7200 rpm (hitachi) died in my Dell Inspiron 9100. I chose this to replace it. It's 7200 rpm which is a big improvement for most laptops. It's super quiet and I haven't noticed a signifigant difference in heat, but I had a 7200rpm before. Normal speeds from HDTach for this type of drive. I love that it's a lot quiter than my hitachi. LOOK, the hitachi's are cheaper, but don't sell yourself short. This drive will last longer, runs quiter. Don't save the $20-$30 and give yourself heartburn later!

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: It was a little tricky figuring out how to transfer the adapaters from the old drive to the new drive, but the light-bulb eventually went on and I figured it out. Once the adapters from dell were on the new drive, it worked seemlessly. I definitely recommend!

Pros: This drive replaced a failing 4200 rpm drive, luckily it didn't fail before I got this drive in. I was able to ghost the old drive to this one with no problems. Boot and Application Load times (even before it started failing) is noticibly faster.

Cons: No cons, seagate is a good mainstream brand and tend to have a longer warranty than the competition.

Overall Review: Don't buy maxtor drives they have a high failure rate. If I could only choose a drive by brand it would be in this order: Seagate, Hitachi, Western Digital, Maxtor. *Based on fialure of drives in 10 years of me doing computer maintenance.

Pros: Replaced a dead 4200rpm drive - noticably quicker, boot, unhibernation, everything is now a lot faster

Cons: could be cheaper...

Overall Review: Nice n fast Newegg delivery.