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    Recommend me a Harddrive for my P-6860FX's second slot...

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by dozerking, May 12, 2008.

  1. dozerking

    dozerking Notebook Consultant

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    Since we can have two HDD's and I'm not the biggest fan of Vista, I want to pick up a second HDD for this badboy. After my second installation of Vista due to faulty files and numerous performance woes in games and compatibility issues. I'm going back to XP and throwing my favorite linux flavor on here, but I still want a Vista install for the original HDD.

    So, what's a great drive to pick up that's recommended?

    Is it worth picking up a 7200rpm? I've heard that the platters are so small that it negates any sort of big performance jump. Not sure if that's true or not.

    I'm not running raid, so I'm not worried about matching them for RAID 0.
     
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  2. trumpetgod

    trumpetgod Notebook Geek

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    with the 7200rpm, you're plunking on a hefty chunk of change extra for negligible performance increase. unless you mind sitting for an extra five seconds when loading levels on, say, crysis, you won't notice any considerable difference.

    so, i say, save the money, go buy a 5400rpm
     
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    trumpetgod Notebook Geek

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    on top of what I just said, if you want a faster boot time, you may want to consider a relatively small 7200rpm hdd for just the boot sequence, not for storage.
     
    trumpetgod, May 12, 2008
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    tasty crabcakes Notebook Enthusiast

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    I put a second WD Scorpio 320 in it (the same one it has) and then set it up in RAID 0. It is quick, especially when loading apps. A cheap upgrade too at $125.00.
     
    tasty crabcakes, May 13, 2008
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