Replacement drive for dv6-6140us laptop

Currenly dying in place in my laptop is a 640gb 5400rpm sata 3gb/sec drive with an 8mb buffer.  I was wondering if it would be wise to improve performance a bit and perhaps go to a 7200rpm drive or a 16mb buffer.

Hey there warenk618,
As Paul_Tikkanen pointed out, it is a good idea to upgrade to 7,200 rpm with more cache. The heat shouldn't be a problem at all. WD Black is a great drive for high performance and should be a big upgrade over your current drive.
Again, as Paul_Tikkanen stated, you should get similar or larger drive if you are planning to move everything from your old drive to the new one. One way is to clone your old disk and thus have the exact same copy on the new one. A great program to do this is Acronis True Image (I've put a link at the bottom). Another way is to make an image of your current disk and transfer it to your new one.
If you would like to further upgrade your laptop, I'd say you should check out also WD Black2 which is a dual drive with 120G SSD and 1TB HDD in one and, unlike the hybrid drives, you have the freedom to choose what to install on the SSD and what to put on the HDD (the OS and most important games and programs for example). There's a link to that too at the bottom.
SATA 3 is backwards compatible with SATA 2 and should work just fine, with the speed of SATA 2.
Do make sure to have a backup of all your important information before you move your data from your old drive to your new one.
Acronis True Image:http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119
WD Black 2: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1190
Hope this helped you,
Captain_WD.

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