I just won this HDD for my laptop. I got it from some online retailer, and I used an auction sniper, knocking $30 off the MSRP.

I know it's not the best by any means, but it is about mid-range.

Brand New Samsung 2.5" 320GB SATA 5400 8MB Laptop Harddrive  
    * MSRP: $109
    * Mfr Part Number: HM320JI
    * Capacity: 320 GB
    * Rotational Speed: 5400 rpm
    * Cache: 8 MB
    * Interface: SATA 150
    * Max. External Transfer Rate: 150 MB/s
    * Average Seek Time: 12 ms
    * Shock:
          o Operating: 325G @ 2ms
          o Non-operating: 1000G @ 1ms
    * Dimensions (WxDxH): 69.85 x 100 x 9.5 mm
    * Weight: 102 g

I needed more space for my Windows partition, and it was severely eating into my OS X partition, in which I need a lot space. I mean, I'm a Graphic Design/Illustration student, who also has about $200 worth of PC games he wants to play. AH NEEDZ MAH SPACE. And a 500GB 9mm laptop drive was waaaaaaaaaay out of my price range by almost $200.

Basically, after I install this, I'm gonna BootCamp the drive to have about 70GB for XP, and the rest for OS X. I mean, all of my Steam games at the moment total to about 35GB, give or take a few GB for downloaded multi-player maps, so there'll be extra space for all the other games I may want to install in the future, like Dead Space.

This'll also leave me with about 250GB on OS X, which will give me plenty of space for all of my movies and TV shows, and when I get a dSLR, hundreds of RAW files.

Life is good.

(This post was last modified: 12/09/2008 05:50 PM by Chroma.)