what is a fast Hard Drive for the new FX laptops

Looking for a fast hard drive for the new P171x Fx laptops it says that they are ATA I thought that SATA was faster. Please help me!

 

It says serial ATA as in SATA . The WD Scorpio 250GB is a match for your current drive, have two of these in RAID 0, and they should be plenty fast.

 

What do you mean fast? As in rpm? 7.200 rpm is the fastest you can go for a laptop HDD.

SATA I and II offer higher speed in data transfer but it's not so much a factor I think.

 

I dont know much about this stuff but for playing games I get a 250 at 5400 with the laptop If I get another one like it I can set up a RAID and it will be fast?

 

If you're that obsessed with speed and fast, just get an ssd

 

IMO SSD isn't worth it right now. Sure they're fast, no doubt. But you end up paying a small fortune for a tiny HDD. The largest I saw was offered by Dell. Its a 64Gb drive that will cost you a 1000 euros. Considering I can get terrabytes of HDD space for less, I'm content waiting a little longer for my HDD to finish.

Just my 2 cents.

 

Your laptop has 2 hdd bays one is empty, your current hdd is pretty much a WD scorpio. yes your Gateway does support RAID 0 which will speed things up.

 

Fastest hard drives on the market is the 7200 rpm 16mb hard drives. They only go up to 200GB btw

 

i have 2 momentus seagates in mine 7200rpm 100gb each. 200 gb total then i tood the 250 scorpio out and put in a $5 external case and now I have a 200gb raid0 split into 90gb for OS and the other 100gb for games. then the OG 250 sits right next to it for backup and storage.

those 2 7200's make it run real nice. can't wait for ssd's to get cheap

 

Here are my HD Tune v. 2.54 benchmark - 2x Hitachi 200gb 7,200rpm (Raid 0) for your reference.

HD Tune: Intel Raid 0 Volume Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 60.7 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 128.7 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 101.1 MB/sec
Access Time : 15.8 ms
Burst Rate : 813.5 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 9.0%

 

BTW: I'm so jealous Ray - been looking for a T9300 but it looks like they are still hella hard to find. The 1.66ghz is running pretty well but I can't wait to see how it'll play once I get a 9000 series CPU in it :-D

 

DVSman

Well, here's where I ordered mine:

http://www.lagoom.com/INTEL_CPU_CORE_2_DUO_T9300_2.50GHZ/BX80576T9300/partinfo-id-579832.html

Mine will be here Thursday

 

Post up once you receive it and have a chance to put it in

I've never heard of Lagoom - how was the service and stuff?

 

Great, no problems and in stock. Ordered Sunday, UPS delivers today..acording to tracking

 

I ordered my T9300 from them too very reasonalble price and in stock.

 

Ok - so this thread danced around the question but never really answered it completely. I have the P-6831FX Gateway with the original hard drive ... Would I be better off buying a new (faster) hard drive OR another identical hard drive which came in it originally (and set up RAID 0)? The cost is about the same, but which direction will be FASTER?

 

this thread is ancient now there are faster drives than being discussed here... i'm not very familiar with raid but i know there are 320gb 7200 hdds already out and 500gb 7200s are jsut around the corner. as i said in (i think it was your) thread i would wait a couple weeks for either the 500gb 7200s or to see how well the new round of ssd's fair. there are some very promising ssd solutions out there and 128gb at 299$ this is the thresh hold for many of us...

 

I was wondering why people were saying that 200gb was the largest 7200rpm drive...