Best Place For Sata UK Hard Drive

I've been looking around the Internet for a new hard drive.
Basically either:
100GB 7200RPM
or
120GB 5400RPM
I don't care about the brand, just the cheapest price. Remember UK only.
THANKS

Any experience on comparing 5400 Seagate 120GB to the HItachi 7K100 at 100GB but 7200? I guess question is whether the speed makes much real difference and thus the extra 20Gb is the better option for general use (as both are more or less the same price).
My HD has the problem where when hot it starts behaving "sticky" and every 2-3 minutes processes start to hang as does disc access for about 30secs-1minute (as this happens EVERY 2-3 minutes i becomes unusable...) - there are some threads showing this is typified by some earlier Macbooks (like mine) and a few people have found changing HD solves it.....so have a 100GB in already from Apple but may have to dump it - key thing is the drive is reliable and will work on hot days and nights, unlike the current one!

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Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
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Kappy's Personal Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
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I would also recommend downloading the shareware utility TinkerTool System that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old log files and archives, clearing caches, etc. Other utilities are also available such as Onyx, Lion Cache Cleaner, CockTail, for example.
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use a MyBook for Mac external hard drive.
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Hi,
My mac is iMac G5 1.6G 17 inch with no iSight.
Recently i buy a new Seagate 160GB SATT II(ST3160812AS) and try to replace with my old internal hard drive.
First i use the SuperDupe! software to clone with my old HD.It works fine and can be read the data via a external SATA box.
Then i shut down the Power and follow the instruction provied on the Apple web site to replace the HD.
After i replace the HD and power on the mac, the display only show a gray backgrounp and the apple mark does not show up!
I recheck the install and the data/power cable is well and connected.
I use the Mac OS X install CD to run the disk utility and i found the cd-rom is the only device it found!
I try to reset the PRAM and NVRAM, the problem still exists.
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So that I get this right, you cloned the internal OS X drive onto an external FW-SATA HDD using SuperDuper! ?
There sounds like an issue that the iMac doesn't recognise the SATA II drive for some reason - would've thought it should do.
A quick trawl through the knowledge base should reference any info that the iMac only supports SATA I for your revision, which I'm guessing is A.
Just checked - as you should/could have - the iMac you have only accepts PATA drives. So you'll need to exchange or buy an ATA 6 HDD for your iMac to work, without booting from the external drive.

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Or am I trying to cram a V8 Hemi engine into my Mini Cooper, but just hooking it up to my 4-spark plug ignition system to run it on four cylinders?
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Thanks guys that is so helpful :-)
I will follow your advice Ogelthorpe & see how I get on with the job!!! Virgin territory for me so I may well shout for help once my MBP is in bits!! Is there a guide for duffers for this job anywhere??
& yes in an ideal world I would be replacing my old MBP but I'm just not in a position to do that at the moment....let's hope things pick up in 2013
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Nick

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