Upgrading from HD 5400rpm to 7200rpm made no difference

I have an Acer Aspire 5930 and I recently upgraded my hard drive (stock 5400rpm 250GB) to a brand new Seagate 7200rpm 320GB.

I thought I would have noticed some improvements when opening applications or better performances in general, but it does seem the same as before to me...

Is there any limit set in the BIOS or motherboard?

Can I run some test to check to test my hard drive real speed?

Thank you

 

If you go from a regular mechanical hard drive to a SSD solid state drive, you will see a huge difference in Windows boot time and when first loading large applications.

The difference between a 5400 rpm and a 7200 rpm mechanical hard drive is minimal compared to switching to a SSD.

HD Tach is a hard drive benchmark utility that can test your hard drive speed.

http://majorgeeks.com/HDTach_d672.html

If you run it on each hard drive, you might see a difference or if there is a problem.

 

Thank you.

Could you advise about a compatible SSD for my laptop?

 

There are no incompatible except 3.5" or non sata or 6gb/s SSDs which will simply be limited to 3gb/s (thats A LOT, can hardly be called a limit).

I think 7200 rpm drives make a difference once your drive starts filling up.

 

My understanding (=guess?) is that the rotation speed is important only where large continuous data throughput is needed - for example when playing or recording multitrack audio and perhaps video - and other factors such as fragmentation come into play here, too.

SSD's are all very well, but still very expensive for the sizes I would use.

 

A great plan is to store most of your data on a HDD and your OS on the internal SSD.

Your HDD can be external with a USB or possibly Esata interface, or it can be used in your DVD drive slot with a caddy.

 

i noticed a diffrence in my old sony vaio 5200 rpm from a 7200 rpm western digital black I dont know seems my black is quick but thats just me

 

I upgraded from a WD Scorpio Blue to a WD Scorpio Black, the performance increase was staggering. Boot times dropped by almost 30 seconds after I restored my usual configuration, and loading games such as Crysis or any game with huge map files saw at least a 30% drop in load time.