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    Finally! 1TB 7200 9.5mm internal HDD

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by TBoneSan, Mar 12, 2013.

  1. TBoneSan

    TBoneSan Laptop Fiend

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    As the title suggests. Internal HDD's with similar specs have been stuck at either 750gb or 5400rpm. This is a Hitachi Travelstar 7k1000
    and its pretty well priced at around $100 .
    Now, I might raid a couple up.
     
    TBoneSan, Mar 12, 2013
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  2. radji

    radji Farewell, Solenya...

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    Hooray!@! I won't have to worry not when my 750GB Scorpio blacks fill up. OH HAPPY DAYS!
     
    radji, Mar 12, 2013
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  3. Thatoe

    Thatoe Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks for sharing.
    I'm going to replace the 640gb raid0 with these.
    I have games installed on them.
    Will I need to clone or just copy pasting and setting same drive letter enough?

    Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2
     
    Thatoe, Mar 12, 2013
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  4. Prostar Computer

    Prostar Computer Company Representative

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    Fresh installs are ideal, especially with a RAID setup.
     
    Prostar Computer, Mar 12, 2013
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  5. Thatoe

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    Yeah I might just do that.
    I'm just wondering if it doesn't matter since it's non-OS drive.

    Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2
     
    Thatoe, Mar 12, 2013
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  6. Ajfountains

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    Awesome. Is this available now? Where can i purchase it in the states?
     
    Ajfountains, Mar 12, 2013
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  7. Metalman

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    I purchased one from Newegg.
     
    Metalman, Mar 12, 2013
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  8. cdoublejj

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    can you provide a link?
     
    cdoublejj, Mar 12, 2013
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  9. Metalman

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    Abidderman, Mar 13, 2013
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  11. Prostar Computer

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    You might be able to get away with cloning then. Just make sure the partitions are aligned and you should be fine. :)
     
    Prostar Computer, Mar 13, 2013
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  12. Thatoe

    Thatoe Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm a little confused with the specs.
    Maybe there are several versions of this drive.
    The one on newegg has 16MB cache and SATA II.
    Amazon has SATA II and SATA III versions both with 32MB cache.
    It could be just typos in the specs though.
     
    Thatoe, Mar 13, 2013
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  13. kayphoonstar

    kayphoonstar Notebook Guru

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    I got mine through Newegg/Ebay. The specs said Sata II but it was a Sata III 32GB cache. If you read some of the reviews on the Newegg site, I think you'll find some of the discussion of the descrepancies. It seems like a great drive!
     
    kayphoonstar, Mar 13, 2013
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  14. Metalman

    Metalman Notebook Consultant

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    Same here ^
     
    Metalman, Mar 13, 2013
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  15. Marksman30k

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    how many platters?
     
    Marksman30k, Mar 13, 2013
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  16. Thatoe

    Thatoe Notebook Evangelist

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    From the link in OP

     
    Thatoe, Mar 14, 2013
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  17. King of Interns

    King of Interns Simply a laptop enthusiast

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    Man this is slow progress! Only twice the capacity of the 7k500 I have while the power efficiency isn't improved at all. Is double the capacity all 2.5 years can bring!? :(

    I hope I can get a 2TB drive before 2015 rolls around. I guess we can be hopeful a 2TB 12.7mm will be released soon considering a 15mm one already exists.
     
    King of Interns, Mar 14, 2013
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  18. HTWingNut

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    Heck, I'm still waiting for $100 4TB desktop drives. And does it really matter if it's SATA II or SATA III since this drive won't saturate the SATA II speeds as it is.
     
    HTWingNut, Mar 14, 2013
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  19. King of Interns

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    true that, I doubt a traditional HDD without nand will ever saturate SATA II. At least in laptop form factor!
     
    King of Interns, Mar 14, 2013
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    It may not saturate SATA 6Gbit/s, but there are other implementations in SATA revision 3 that make it a worthwhile investment, even for a slow drive.
     
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    Like what exactly?
     
    HTWingNut, Mar 14, 2013
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    I think for many of us that have not had to buy a HDD in the last year or so, getting a fast, large HDD for under $90 ( for me) is a great buy. Storage to go with our SSD and at 1 TB at that is the news.
     
    Abidderman, Mar 14, 2013
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  23. King of Interns

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    Yes I am interested too! Perhaps Mr Prostar is trying to sell us a next gen laptop with SATA III so we can stick a 150mb/s drive in that barely saturates SATA I
     
    King of Interns, Mar 15, 2013
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    Dont understand why finally .. there is not much diff. btwn. 5400 .. when reading 4k which is most often they are on the same line..
     
    GalaxySII, Mar 16, 2013
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  25. Marksman30k

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    The issue is the performance improvement is mostly for sequential speeds as the hype is about the high density 500gb platters. HDD companies have stopped wasting effort optimizing Random performance due to SSDs. The 500gb platters have been around for 5400RPM drives for a while now. The WD Blue can achieve about 120mb/s max and 60mb/s min sequential speeds. The 7200RPM offers a 33% improvement in spindle speeds, I estimate this equates to an improvement of about 30% in sequential speeds with the 500gb platter over the 5400rpm motors.
     
    Marksman30k, Mar 16, 2013
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  26. GalaxySII

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    That is all fine but seagate and some others manufs. gonna stop producing 7200rpm's anyway they said is no point.. focusing on hybrid
     
    GalaxySII, Mar 16, 2013
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  27. Marksman30k

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    I would only trust Seagate's hybrids only when they can get at least 32gb of NAND cache on the drive with a decent controller.
     
    Marksman30k, Mar 16, 2013
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  28. ooati

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    This is kind of old but does anyone have performance data from a RAID 0 setup using these drives?
     
    ooati, Oct 26, 2014
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