Posted: 7/15/2010 10:55:01 AM EDT
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I am just wondering if 7200rpm harddrives are worth it in a laptop? I just ordered a somewhat "powerful" laptop, yet it only comes with a 5400rpm hard drive.
Now its seems useless to buy a powerful laptop, only to have hard drive slow me down. SO would a $75 hard drive upgrade be worth it? |
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7200RPM drives are faster, but also hotter, and consume more power. The Western Digital Black drives I am looking at consume about the same. 5400rpm.. IDLE: .85Watts LOAD:2.5Watts Black 7200rpm IDLE .95Watts LOAD 2.1Watts SSD is WAY out of the question, there is no way I would spend $150-200 on a 96gb drive, cutting my storage in half. THis is a 14" laptop, if it was a 17" with two harddrive bays i would gladly buy a 30gb for my OS Also SSD consumes MORE power |