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Posted: 3/17/2006 4:05:08 AM EDT

Just installed a 100gb 7200rpm seagate drive into my 3 year old compaq.

My notebook feels like a desktop now. Even with only a AMD 1600 (which I am upgrading to a 2500 as soon as it gets here). It runs so much faster.

I just wish I could upgrade my video card.

Posted: 3/17/2006 4:07:56 AM EDT

[#1]

that type of drive pretty much comes with any new LOW end system that you buy. Less money = less performance.

Posted: 3/17/2006 4:22:52 AM EDT

[#2]

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that type of drive pretty much comes with any new LOW end system that you buy. Less money = less performance.

Low end? Most of the notebooks I work on and seen only have 4600 and maybe 5400rpm drives. 4600 are dog slow(which is what I had). I've only seen high end systems with 7200rpm drives.

Posted: 3/17/2006 4:52:02 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
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that type of drive pretty much comes with any new LOW end system that you buy. Less money = less performance.

Low end? Most of the notebooks I work on and seen only have 4600 and maybe 5400rpm drives. 4600 are dog slow(which is what I had). I've only seen high end systems with 7200rpm drives.

sorry i had just woken up when i typed that

i ment to say that they saved money by putting the lower rpm harddrives in those systems.

Posted: 3/17/2006 4:54:25 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Quoted:
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that type of drive pretty much comes with any new LOW end system that you buy. Less money = less performance.

Low end? Most of the notebooks I work on and seen only have 4600 and maybe 5400rpm drives. 4600 are dog slow(which is what I had). I've only seen high end systems with 7200rpm drives.

sorry i had just woken up when i typed that

i ment to say that they saved money by putting the lower rpm harddrives in those systems.

lol ok.

Posted: 3/18/2006 10:51:10 PM EDT

[#5]

Lap tops often come with just a 4200 rpm drive , some do come with 5400, and the high end come with the 7200. The slower drives do have the advantage of using less power, but since mine is more a desk top replacement anyway, I don't care. I wasn't able to get a 7200 for mine, but I picked up a 5400 a couple weeks ago and put that in my Gateway, and am using the original one as an external drive.

Posted: 3/20/2006 11:08:12 PM EDT

[#6]

For LAPTOPS, (2.5" drives) most come with 5400 RPM's. 4200 is considered junk now.
It's desktops that "normally" have 7400's.

There's at least two 7400-RPM laptops out there now, about 2.5X as expensive as normal, 60gb for $200 is one I saw.

They've been available for a few months maybe, not that long. But all the few people I've heard/read of putting them in, they ALL said it's a fantastic difference.
~

Posted: 3/21/2006 2:02:58 AM EDT

[#7]

Newegg currently has 100 Gb 7200 rpm Seagates for $180..I'm about to order one.

Posted: 3/21/2006 4:24:40 AM EDT

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Newegg currently has 100 Gb 7200 rpm Seagates for $180..I'm about to order one.

That is what I have. So far running great.

Posted: 3/22/2006 1:01:02 AM EDT

[#9]

<sigh> I should have ordered it over the weekend...the sale sold them all out and now I'm on the backorder list....

Posted: 3/30/2006 7:11:46 PM EDT

[#10]

I had a kid in the Apple store tell my boss that booting from a 7200rpm external firewire 400 device would be faster than booting from the onboard 5400rpm hard drive. Smells like BS to me.

Posted: 3/31/2006 1:12:12 AM EDT

[#11]

No matter how fast the internal drive specs, you'd be limited by the bus speed I would think.

(That's why I have all my externals hooked up with SATA converters now...

)

ETA: Apples have their place, but the machine (and especialy anyone who shops in "The Apple Store" is not usually <ahem> tech-friendly...

Posted: 3/31/2006 3:20:01 AM EDT

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I had a kid in the Apple store tell my boss that booting from a 7200rpm external firewire 400 device would be faster than booting from the onboard 5400rpm hard drive. Smells like BS to me.

thats why he's a salesman. not a technician

Posted: 3/31/2006 4:03:51 PM EDT

[#13]

Well it actually would depend on the bus speed of the laptop. It might be ATA66 or ATA100... in which case the firewire 400 might actually be faster.. in theory.

-d

Posted: 4/8/2006 1:58:27 PM EDT

[#14]

7200 in a laptop kicks ass. Before I went and bought my own laptop I was using an old 1gig dell laptop but with a 7200rpm drive it wasnt that painfull. I also made sure my new one had a 7200rpm drive as well.

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