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Originally Posted by JSLTIGER
5400 is fine for most notebooking purposes...don't, however, go to 4200. That will be a huge slow down.
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I'd have to agree with this statement here. 5400 is the perfect compromise on a notebook HD. 4200's are terribly slow and 7200's generate too much heat and kill battery life. I put a 7200 in a Sony notebook once and it generated enough heat to screw up the Northbridge chip resulting in the laptop not being able to function - locking it up until a cooler 5400 drive was installed.
Anyway, if you plan to use an external HD enclosure though - 7200 RPM is Da' Bomb!
-S