Any performance boost from 4200rpm to 5400rpm?

Hiya,

I just bought a new laptop(HP presario V2424AU) with the specs below

AMD turion 1.8Ghz
512mb ram (upgrading to 1GB)
Ati express 200M 128mb shared

The HDD comes with it is labelled IC25N060 ATMR04 -0. Icheck online and it is a Hitachi 60GB 4200rpm HDD. I also got a 40GB seagate momentum 5400rpm HDD in modile HDD case now. I was thinking swtching the two. Since e modile HDD use usb 2.0, i guess changing it to 4200rpm HDD won't make any difference in data transfer speed. But change the 4200rpm to 5400rpm in laptop might bring some performance increase. Do you think I can get performance improvements after e swap? Thanks!

 

This is like when you have an old Studebaker car, but you want a faster engine: You take out an engine from a Ferrari car and put it in the Studebaker car, and thus you have your Studebaker.... wait a minute, wait.... W.T.F. am I talking about?? *beep*

 

Bump from 4200 to 5400 is a pretty nice size jump. You will notice faster boot times and such.

 

Yes, It will help out the boot time, and loading programs and games, and installing. And its somthing that you will notice. I do sudgest taking your 40GB 5400 out of its usb case and putting the 60 4200 in the USB case. I think you will notice little to no difference over the USB transfer speeds. Good luck!

 

I agree with the other posts. You will definetly notice a performance increase by changing from 4200 to 5400 rpm. Load and boot times will be faster. For your USB box, since the transfer speed will be limited by the USB, I think you will not notice a diffrence between a 4200 and a 5400 rpm HDD.

 

I was just working on one of these Seagate drives. You need a special screwdriver to get it out. Pain in the butt. The performance difference is quite substantial.

 

It just depends on what you are doing, if you are only going to be doing gamming, you can sneak by with a 4200 easily. If you are going to be doing lots of data intensive tasks such as video editing/databasing, you would need to get a faster spinning drive.

I think a 5400 is a great upgrade no matter what you are doing on your notebook.

 

5400RPM will provide a large performance increase over 4200's, with little heat increase. Very well worth it in my opinion - it will speed up everything that uses the hard drive, from starting up, opening programs, or loading game levels.

Western Digital makes the best 5400RPM drives in my opinion. Very cool running, extremely quiet, high quality parts. Hitachi's tend to be a bit noisy. Toshiba's are rubbish.

 

I've read that the jump from 4200 to 5400 is very noticable (IIRC, the becnchmarks showed a 25% imporvement in loading files/applications from the HDD) and the jump from 5400 to 7200 barely noticable (about 7% more for the 7200).

Also the difference in power drain between the 5400 and the 4200 is negligible, while the 7200 does have effects on battery life (if that's of concern).

 

http://www.laptoplogic.com/resources/detail.php?id=16

that test suggests the jump from 5400 to 7200 is more noticeable, and that effect on battery life is negligible

 

Just curious where you found out online the hard drive in your computer. I know have a Hitachi 80gb - supposed to be 4200 rpm but how can I confirm?

Also, please post back after you switch the drives and let me know what the results were...

 

5400 is becoming the standard for notebooks.

Windows Media Center requires at least 5400, if you ever want to upgrade.

The technology for 7200 isn't quite there yet. I have a 7K60 in my VAIO and don't get me wrong, it boots up really fast but it's not completely silent and does run a bit warm.

 

Usually if you check the manufacturer's website under product support they have spec's available online.

The easiest way is probably to Google "your laptop + specs" and you should find some results.

 

Just check the property in control panel disk management and u find the hard disk number. Google search that number gives u lots of results to refer to

 

You also can look in the bios what youre RPM is.

 

I just upgraded the HD in my new HP laptop from a 40GB 4200RPM HDD with 2MB cache to a nice Fujistu 80GB 5400RPM HDD with 8MB cache and noticed a significant difference in everything that I do.

My battery life increased quite a bit according to Notebook Hardware Control (it says 1 hour, but it's more likely to be something like 15 min or so). Booting up was quite nice from a 4200RPM HDD so I would highly recommend the upgrade. I got mine from Newegg for $115 shipped.

 

Just curious - did you consider the Samsung models for the same price? Which Fujitsu, there are 2 @ $115 - cant figure the diff...

Fujitsu MHV2080AH 80GB 5400 RPM Notebook Hard Drive - OEM

Fujitsu MHT-AH 5400 RPM MHT2080AH 80GB 5400 RPM Notebook Hard Drive - OEM