Seagate 500Gb 5400RPM - Seagate 7200RPM

My problem is pretty much sorted now, but I thought others may be interested in my experiences. Essentially I upgrade from a Macbook to a Macbook Pro UniB 2.4Ghz - I put in a WD 320Gb 7200RPM drive, and then later upgraded that to a 5400RPM Seagate 500Gb.
Anyways, I wasn't too happy with the performance of the machine... Random pauses, generally a little lethargic. Anyways, I've now put in a Seagate 7200RPM unit and the transformation is massive - it almost makes me think there's something wrong with the 5400RPM unit... But I can't find anything screwey with it. For what it's worth it's now in a Dell unit and seemingly working well enough, and quickly. It's just not too great in the MBP?
Anyway, have a look here if you're interested: http://www.markc.me.uk/MarkC/Blog/Entries/2009/6/13Macbook_Pro_Hard_DiskUpgrade.html

I had a similar experience when I tried the Seagate 500 GB 5400-rpm drive in my MacBook Pro earlier this year. From my admittedly anecdotal observations, the drive seemed particularly slow on read access times. Also, I would occasionally get an odd UI stuttering effect when lots of data was being read from disk.
I found similar reports from other users on the forums at NewEgg.com. Reports on various tech sites (e.g. Tom's Hardware) seemed to confirm that read access times were around 19 ms, compared to 15 or 16 ms for many other drives. A difference of 3-4 ms might not seem like much, but it is apparently noticeable.
A week later, I switched to the Western Digital 500 GB 5400-rpm drive and the problem disappeared immediately.
Now I'm running the Seagate 500 GB 7200-rpm drive in my new MacBook Pro, which also seems quite snappy, perhaps even more so than the Western Digital. My only complaint is that the 7200-rpm drive also produces more vibration in the MacBook Pro's unibody chassis. But I expected as much and am slowly learning to live with it for the sake of performance.
-Dennis

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gorylewis wrote:
Hi Everyone,
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