Which HDD to choose in a laptop?

Question

Hard disks

In my laptop, the Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB, bought in May of this year, is dying (covered with bads). In this regard, I want to change it to something similar, but reliable.
Basically, now I choose between Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 (HTE725050A9A364) and Western Digital Scorpio Black (WD5000BEKT).
What screw would you recommend? (I remind you that the most important criterion is reliability.)

Answer 1

Somewhere on Habré there is an article about hard drives and in this article in the Hitachi breakdown diagram - it distinguished itself by its high reliability.
I also have a Hitachi Travelstar 4800 rpm in my laptop - the speed is excellent! And the disk is already more than 4 years old, there has not been a single failure and there are practically no bad sectors.

Answer 2

I also want to note that double-disk screws get hotter than single-disk ones. I recently bought a WD 640GB. It heats up like an iron (almost always around 50 degrees).

Answer 3

hitachi. Seagate and WD have become less reliable lately.

Answer 4

I'm watching SMART program "SMART Utility" under MacOS.
Noticeable intermittent freezes when accessing the hard drive. Sometimes you even have to reboot.

Answer 5

Western Digital black one of the most reliable