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    Hard upgrade 4200 RPM to 5400 RPM

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by danbrow, Aug 19, 2005.

  1. danbrow

    danbrow Notebook Geek

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    I've got a Seagate ST910022A that came with my acer 1694 laptop, I've also got a 5400 RPM Seagate ST910023A drive. The 5400 RPM drive is no faster then the 4200 RPM, DMA is on and everything is configured right. So what gives? :rolleyes:
     
    danbrow, Aug 19, 2005
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  2. drumfu

    drumfu super modfu

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    what do you mean by " (no) faster" ? how are you measuring?
     
    drumfu, Aug 19, 2005
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    qwester Notebook Virtuoso

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    use HDTUNE ( www.hdtune.com) for benchmarking ... you should find a significant difference, I would say 10% at least.
     
    qwester, Aug 19, 2005
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    KrispyKreme50 Notebook Evangelist

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    Yeah, the 5400 rpm should be alot faster, but in most cases, you won't notice it b/c the extra speed only shaves off a few seconds (doesn't make loading up applications instantneous or anything).
     
    KrispyKreme50, Aug 19, 2005
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  5. danbrow

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    I used HDtune in the first place. The drive is a lot faster in the max speed area almost 13 mb/s faster. It's 6 MB/s faster in the ave, it's the same for everything else. Next I'll write the numbers down, then compare drives.

    Thanks.
     
    danbrow, Aug 19, 2005
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    ok...thanks for that information :D
     
    LuckMC11, Aug 19, 2005
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    Pretty soon we should see the Hitachi 7K100 and 7K80 series in more notebooks. They're supposed to offer low end desktop 7200 rpm performance, a first for notebooks.
     
    KrispyKreme50, Aug 20, 2005
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