Need advice upgrading laptop hard drive please

[naughtydog1978]

Hi, I am contemplating replacing my Hitachi WD5000BEKT with a Western Digital WD5000BEKT but was not sure this would be a significant performance upgrade for my laptop since it only has a Sata1 (1.5 Gb/s) controller. What do you guys think? I am only interested in the performance and not the capacity of the drives. Thank you

 

[PhilFrisbie]

Yes, you should see a performance increase, due to both the faster spindle speed and a higher data density.

 

[naughtydog1978]

Yes, you should see a performance increase, due to both the faster spindle speed and a higher data density.

Thanks

 

[nebun]

if you are looking for speed and have the money just get yourself and ssd....they are well worth it...my daughter has dropped our laptop and the floor at least 5 time and i actually dropped it from about 4 feet on the carped....if there was a mechanical disk it would have been gone long time go.....trust me SSD is the way to go for a mobile platform