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    10000 rpm drive for notebooks

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by A&W, Mar 5, 2006.

  1. A&W

    A&W Newbie

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    Do they make a 10000 rpm drive for notebooks, if so can someone recomend one. I'm in film school right now so I'm trying to sqeeze every bit of power out
    of my hp L2000, I use it video editing and 3d animation. by the way, I've allready maxed it out with pc3200 memory, can someone explain t1 timings and
    how to do that...thanks for your time.
     
    A&W, Mar 5, 2006
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  2. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    They do not, 7200 RPM is the top speed at the moment.
     
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  3. UNICRON-WMD

    UNICRON-WMD Notebook Guru

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  4. Elminst

    Elminst Some Network Guy

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    They have 7200 RPM drives with 16M cache now... I just saw them on newegg, I think they were Samsungs
     
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  5. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Only Seagate and Hitachi makes 7200rpm 2.5" HDs so far.
     
    coriolis, Mar 5, 2006
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    I have looked and looked the best I found is the 7k100 hitachi travelstar 7200rpm 100gig. They are like 186 at newegg. I have one on the way actually.
     
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    My bad. the 16M cache drives are 5400 RPM, made by toshiba.
     
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    And they are 2.5 instead of 3.5.
     
    UNICRON-WMD, Mar 6, 2006
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    They have 7,200RPM drives only. There are only a handful of desktop 10,000RPM drives, they're not coming to notebooks, yet.
     
    Smith2688, Mar 6, 2006
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    There are also 15000RPM desktop drives. SCSI.
     
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    You can set T1 Timings using A64Tweaker applications( search google). Typically the main problem for Video Capture/editing is HDD.

    I would suggest buy a 7200RPM Hitachi Drive( 100GB version) , put it as main laptop drive and use current drive as external drive.

    The problem with HDDs are, these have verygood bandwidth for reading or writing, but not for both concurrently. HDD are pathetic when it comes to Random Read and write.

    So use one drive as source drive and another as destination drive, that will improve performance a lot more than anything else in Video editing.
     
    chinna_n, Mar 6, 2006
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