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i remebered i read article somewhere that 6gb hardrives and above die out easily and are very slow. can anyone have link for this or any links provided to laptop hardrives.

Never heard of such a thing.

6Gb drives use an older design than modern large drives. I'd consider a modern large drive far more reliable.

Stick to a name brand, of course. For instance Samsung and Fujitsu drives in my experience have very short lifetimes - they also have commensurably short warranty periods.

All laptop drives are slow - they're generally 4500 RPM. That's the tradeoff for making them so small.

True is that the laptop HDD's are SLOW but I doubt that laptop HDD's above 6GB die faster than the smaller ones ... you wouldn't be able to provide a link to that article if it's online, would you ?
The newer models are definetly faster and most likely more reliable than the older <6GB drives.

Some of the newer IBM 2.5" HDD's are actually running at 5400 RPM, I could search for the model number when you think you can find a shop that can order one.
It'll be more likely in a shop that also has a corporate sales department although I dunno, ask around. I don't have a link handy for an online shop that sells 2.5" HDD's.

Well, you could ask about it @ the http://www.storagereview.com forum.

Here's place I deal with for laptop drives and other parts: http://www.laptopsforless.com