FWIW, I just replaced my MacBook's HD. I also paid attention to the drive's power consumption to make my laptop as portable as possible. I found that Fujitsu have some of the drives with the lowest power consumption in the market. But when it comes to power consumption, nothing beats SSD drives. They come with a way higher price tag, though.
Just something to remember if power consumption is a primary concern for your portable recorders (i.e. 7xx). Most if not all of the 'green' drives save power by shutting down the platters at certain intervals. Low power consumption is tough for a drive in continuous write mode for >30 minutes at a time usually. Alot of the drives will shut themselves down for a period to save power, but the problem is that they make them so their power settings are unable to be changed manually to increase the shutdown time intervals. Standard middle of the road 5400rpm drives in a 744 last what 5-6 hours on on a 6800+ mAh battery so i'm not sure exactly how much a 'green' drive would save you over the long haul.
SSD's? Two things there. 1. It (SSD drives) really is very much still in its infancy. Read alot of reviews of different drives and you'll see they still have a pretty high failure rate when compared to current HD's. Lots of articles on SSD 'performance degradation' out there. It's just not something i'm willing to trust in the field just yet. 2. I've used a couple of SSD's. A 64GB Transcend drive in an external eSata enclosure and have a 32GB drive in a ASUS netbook I just bought. Think they both are just average performance wise. Not great, not bad just average. For the price tag I expect better performance.
For $175 you can get a G.SKILL/Kingston/Transcend 64GB SSD or for $90 you can buy a Seagate 500GB HD. The $80 you saved let's you buy two large capacity batteries for your 7xx to boot.
Little bit of food for thought.