Best HDD's for laptops?

[LEI CHEN]

TravelStar is a Hitachi's product, and because of it's the most reliable
one, so IBM uses it as Thinkpad's HHD for years.

For example: a 5400 80Gb IDE 2.5" Travelstar has 8Mb of cache.

For your reference:
http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/hgst/?epi_menuItemID=0f34be57a7adb6fd2
5ad4e8060e4f0a0&epi_menuID=f3422d6ea3268f8d5f5a530560e4f0a0&epi_baseMenuID=2
2f0deefa8f3967dafa0466460e4f0a0

Cheers,
LEI

-----Original Message-----
From: Erich Dollansky [mailto:oceanare at pacific.net.sg] 
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 9:48 PM
To: LEI CHEN
Cc: 'Alejandro lanjoe9 Valenzuela'; freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Best HDD's for laptops?

Hi,

LEI CHEN wrote:
> As long as I concern of using laptop, the best HDD should be Toshiba
> TravelStar.

Travelstar is an IBM brand.

I use Toshibas since 1997 without fault. I have had one fault with a 
TravelStar.

> Hello, my laptop's HDD (Toshiba MK401GAS 40 GB) had a horrible mechanical
> failure a few days ago, after about 3 years of use.

It could have been just bad luck.

> What HDD brands/models/manufacturers would you recommend?
> I need one that resists heavy use..

IBM/Hitachi have meanwhile selected models for this purpose. I never 
have seen them in the wild.

Erich