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Ugh. You can get a 500gb HD for less than $100 now. I'm supposed to pay 25% less for a capacity reduction of approximately 75%? ROFL.
AND this is only 5400 instead of 7200rpm.

#1, well, it is a 2.5" HD. You can't get a 500gb for your laptop (yet).

Yeah, too bad it's only 5400rpm or I might bite. Hard to find good deals on 80GB+ PATA 2.5" 7200rpm drives.

i would stick with 7200, especially seagate 7200.2

Only 120gig? By todays atndards that's pretty small!

By standards today, #5 is pretty small.

#1, #4, #5: Read the damn descriptions. 2.5" drives have and always will lag their 3.5" counterparts. People buy them because a) They own laptops or b) they don't want to hear their desktop's HDD seeking. That said, if I were to buy a new storage device for my laptop, I sure wouldn't be looking traditional hard drives. I've got my eyes on SSDs. For desktop silencing, I'd rather get a 3.5" drive and put the money towards a better HSF/case/etc. I'm don't see why any logical person would opt for 2.5" drives. (Except in the rare instance where the last source of audible noise is one's HDD...)

No question SSD is an up and coming technology, but it's not for everyone.

A) It's still more than 10x the cost/GB over 2.5" drives.

B) They may have faster access times, but sequential read/write speeds are far slower than a good 7200RPM drive.

C) They don't have near the capacity (yet) that most users are demanding.

D) Although they are getting better, many are only good for 100K rewrites. This is not acceptable for a system's only HD.

I think the ideal situation is a small local SSD with the OS and a few apps on it, and a fast gigabit NAS (preferably a home-built 30 MB/s+ one) in a closet storing music, videos, pictures, etc.

And not all SSDs are slow. Some are faster than conventional hard drives. And they have much more potential than hard disks, as SSD speeds can be steadily scaled up merely by writing to more chips simultaneously, like a RAID array.

Fry's has a 120GB Fujitsu 2.5" PATA/100 5400 RPM drive for $55 after rebate:

http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4855410

Probably a better deal than this WD, although Fujitsu hard drives always make weird thermal adjustment noises that I'm not particularly fond of.

Don't buy Wester Digital! Buy Seagate or Maxtor. I had one WD drive couldn't even last for 3 months. Click sound coming out from the drive.

I still wish people would edumacate themselves on 2.5" drives before they try to edumacate others.

I think people just want to elevate their post counts.