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    Hitachi 1,5 TB Notebook drive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Tom1939, Sep 18, 2013.

  1. Tom1939

    Tom1939 Notebook Consultant

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    Marecki_clf Homo laptopicus

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    Tom1939 Notebook Consultant

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    Oh, thx! Maybe in some time they will arrive to Europe. And prizes can start to drop :)
     
    Tom1939, Sep 18, 2013
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    Krane Notebook Prophet

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    Will they top 200 MB/s in RAID?

    I'd like to put a couple in a portable RAID drive for editing HD video.
     
    Krane, Sep 18, 2013
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    davidricardo86 Notebook Deity

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    5400RPM? Aw, why no 7200?
     
    davidricardo86, Sep 19, 2013
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    TBoneSan Laptop Fiend

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    I'd say so. I have 2 x HGST 7K1000 which are the 1TB 7200 rpm drives in Raid 0 and get about 290MB/s . I'm pretty sure you'd get over 200MB/s with the 5400 rpm.

    If you can use a SSD to cache that Raid 0 array you will get spectacular results.
     
    TBoneSan, Sep 19, 2013
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  7. Atom Ant

    Atom Ant Hello, here I go again

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    Usually people are using it as storage drive and the operating system running from SSD. For storage drive does not need faster than 5400RPM, it increase life, battery time, decrease noise and heat...
     
    Atom Ant, Sep 19, 2013
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    you and me both buddy. however if i could get one of these, Wintec FileMate 3FMS4E128JM-R Solid State Drive - Newegg.com working i'd be totally fine with 1.5tb @ 5400 rpm. though i think i might actually need 2tb + plus an external 1.5-2tb for my movies as my movies alone take over 1tb.
     
    cdoublejj, Sep 20, 2013
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