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    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by XProsPektX, Jan 10, 2009.

  1. XProsPektX

    XProsPektX Newbie

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    What's the difference between 5400 RPM and 7200 RPM??
     
    XProsPektX, Jan 10, 2009
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  2. Michel.K

    Michel.K 167WAISIQ

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    7200 gives higher performance.
    If you wanna know by how much, you gotte get us some more details and give us the name of the drives you where thinking of, some old 7200rpm are slower than some 5400rpms and some new 5400rpms are faster than 7200rpm drives.
    So it all depends on what HDD.
     
    Michel.K, Jan 10, 2009
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  3. XProsPektX

    XProsPektX Newbie

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    They are Serial ATA drives, if that helps in anyway?
     
    XProsPektX, Jan 10, 2009
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  4. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Their are a lot of 7200rpm SATA drives. Their are actually three generations of 7200rpm drives out on the market today, with the 4th generation coming soon.

    If you are looking for an upgrade, and you want to know which 7200rpm drives to look at, you should look at these drives in particular:
    These are all 320GB 7200rpm drives with 16mb buffer
    The Hitachi Travelstar 7K320
    Western Digital Scorpio Black WD3200BEKT
    Seagate Momentus 7200.3

    These harddrives perform very well, with each having their unique qualities.
    The Seagate momentus 7200.3 is the most power efficient
    The Hitachi 7K320 is the quietest with its three stage cover
    The WD3200BEKT has the fastest application loading

    Please note that the next generation of harddrives, the 4th generation (500Gb 7200rpm) will arrive on the market within 3 weeks or so.
    The current drives listed above can do 65-80mb/Sec of data transfer
    The next generation drives will be faster, so expect around 75-100mb/sec

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Jan 10, 2009
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  5. Michel.K

    Michel.K 167WAISIQ

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    It should say WD3200BEKT or WD32000BJKT in K-TRON's post about 7200rpm drives, he wrote in BEVT twice :)
     
    Michel.K, Jan 10, 2009
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  6. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    thanks for the fix michel.k.
    WD has so many naming schemes :D

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Jan 10, 2009
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  7. Clutch

    Clutch cute and cuddly boys

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    Please dont tell me that was memorized.
     
    Clutch, Jan 10, 2009
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  8. Michel.K

    Michel.K 167WAISIQ

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    Hehe, no problem dude :)

    That's very easy to memorize when you are surfing this forum now and then :)
     
    Michel.K, Jan 10, 2009
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