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    Do you think my HDD speed bottlenecks this system?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Sylenall, Jan 20, 2008.

  1. Sylenall

    Sylenall Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi guys I bought a 1530 about a week ago and I am curious as to whether my HDD might affect performance and how?

    Here are some specs:

    250GB @ 5400
    3GB of RAM
    Intel duo 2.2
    Nivida 256MB 8600 GT
    Vista home priemium (32 bit)
     
    Sylenall, Jan 20, 2008
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  2. Exodemia

    Exodemia Notebook Evangelist

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    I'd say your HDD is pretty good, 5400rpm is plenty fast enough for a laptop really :)
     
    Exodemia, Jan 20, 2008
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  3. mr.bobharris

    mr.bobharris Notebook Consultant

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    if dont already have a 7200rpm drive you're probably not missing anything. just wait and get a solid state when they drop to consumer prices, then you'll really notice a difference.
     
    mr.bobharris, Jan 20, 2008
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    Nah, it may increase load times of some games by a few seconds, but that's not a very big deal for me.
     
    chonga, Jan 20, 2008
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  5. Sylenall

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    Thanks for the imput guys :)
     
    Sylenall, Jan 20, 2008
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    I have two of Hitachi's fastest 7200rpm notebook drives in my laptop in Raid 0, and I still think they are kindof slow. They are slowto me because my desktop has 3 Hitachi 15K ultrastars in Raid 0 on SAS. the performance is insane, I get around 430mb/sec of data transfer across the array. I love Serial attached SCSI.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Jan 20, 2008
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  7. Lite

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    Is that 430mb steady/average or the start up speed ir burst speeds?
     
    Lite, Jan 21, 2008
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