Hard drive recomendation for laptop

[maninsuitcase]

I want to replace the 500GB 5400 drive in my MPB with a 1TB drive as I would like to create a windows bootcamp partition but that would leave me short on space.

Hard drives confuse the heck out of me and I have no idea what I am looking for beyond the size rpm and size.

On a previous laptop I went with a WD black 7200 but is this really needed? I was thinking a WD blue 1TB 5200rpm would be cheaper and also use less juice/generate less heat?

Also thoughts on transferring the data would be appreciated, clean install then copy, clean install time machine restore or cloneing have all come to mind. (edit: clomign looks like a simple job as I have a caddy I can use: http://forums.crucial.com/t5/Solid-...ur-old-hard-drive-to-your-SSD-Mac/ta-p/112072)

 

[neil_g]

It would use less power and generate less heat, but obviously it'll be marginally slower.

I think there is a 1tb hybrid available?

 

[maninsuitcase]

It would use less power and generate less heat, but obviously it'll be marginally slower.

I think there is a 1tb hybrid available?

Would be nice but if the price jumps a lot I'm already used to the 5400 so not a big deal.

 

[FlyingShrapnel]

do you ever use the CD drive? you can get a caddy which will house slim 2.5" HDDs to go in the optical drive bay so you can have 2 hard drives. I have done it with 1 SSD for OS/programs and 1HDD for data, works a treat

 

[Thedodo]

I did see a 1tb hybrid at a very reasonable price in maplins, thing it was a seagate one

 

[maninsuitcase]

A hybrid drive adds about 50% to the cost, £61 for a WD blue vs £91 for a seagate hybrid.

It's only £30 I know but I wonder how much I'd benefit seeing as it would only boost speed on a few frequently used files up to 8GB. In fact in a dual boot it would probably be both OSs that would use most/all the cache anyway (not a bad thing mind if I end up swapping a lot)