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New hard drive for laptop?

My laptop hard drive is filling up quickly, which made me think I probably want to upgrade in the near future to a larger size (my current one is 320GB). You see, I'm a fairly heave iTunes user, with some HD tv shows and movies, and I also like to import my CDs using apple lossless, which results in pretty large file sizes. My question is, how much performance gain would i notice by going from 5400 RPM to 7200? Also, does any hard drive work with any laptop? The one I'm looking at is http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=A2340540&cs=04&c=us&l=en&dgc=SS&cid=52102&lid=1342490. Would this work with my HP G60 laptop? I suppose I should also mention that I do some light gaming on my laptop, such as The Orange Box.

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1. you sound like you need alot of storage the 500gb should do you well how ever it is always handy and useful to have a back up of everything i suggest buying an external 1tb hard drive just incase something happens
2. As long as your laptop has a SATA interface and not an IDE (PATA) interface the above will be o.k SATA has only been out for about 4 yrs for laptops. For laptops it has to be a 2.5" drive As far as speed is concerned transfer rate will be a little higher for the higher speed but doubt if you will notice much difference in the general running of the pc. P.S I have found one spec that says it is a SATA interface for a g60-125nr laptop