recommend me a sata 2.5 for my lappy

[ATI]

hello all

i currently have a western digital WD3200BEVT which i think its slow on startup loading time and just general laoding of apps, games but specially every now and than windows 7 and HD take about 5 mins on loading something after boot or installing and uninstalling of programs.

so i,m looking for a faster HD basically same size or slightly bigger if better value for money, but it really have to be faster.

i came across this:

320GB WesternDigital WD3200BJKT Scorpio Black, is this any good?

any recommendations please?

thanks

 

[rpstewart]

The current Scorpio Blacks are the best mechanical 2.5" HDDs at the moment.

 

[mofo's]

Deffo see a big improvement with a 7,200rpm such as the WD Black, startup & general multi-tasking is so much smoother than a 5,400rpm drive.

 

[ATI]

thanks for that, its really strange with my current HD, it loads up windows and afterwards it still there seeking like is loading million things on taskbar which is not the case since i only have 7 items and using ESET AV which is pretty light compare to the rest. it doesnt do it all the time.

 

[rpstewart]

That's nothing to do with the disk and everything to do with Superfetch caching the stuff you use often. Obviously with a quicker disk this process will be faster though.

 

[ATI]

yep i suspect that as well from my research on it.

can it be turned off?

 

[rpstewart]

It can be disabled but I'm not sure why you'd want to. If the stuff you need isn't already in RAM when you want it then the system needs to load it from disk there and then which is going to make the system feel slower.

 

[ATI]

well i kind of left it because of something like that, but is so annoying when your working or gaming and all of a sudden the HD start to seek for 5-10 mins.

 

[AbsenceJam]

The Black will only be a little faster than the Blue you have and I don't think you issue is with the drive really. The 500 and 640GB laptop drives have better transfer rates than the Black but slightly lower access times.

 

[ATI]

cheers for that, all i need really is something reliable and quick where random pauses as i call them well dont occur or if they do it will be quick

 

[jagga]

try a ssd then