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    Laptop 10krpm drives

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by GamerPro25, Jul 18, 2008.

  1. GamerPro25

    GamerPro25 Notebook Consultant

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    Does anyone have one? If so, do they perform as well as their desktop brethen?
     
    GamerPro25, Jul 18, 2008
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  2. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    Laptop drives spinning at 10000RPM do not exist for several practical reasons:
    1) Heat
    2) Noise
    3) Power consumption
    4) Vibration to the rest of the laptop chassis would be insane
     
    Bog, Jul 18, 2008
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  3. thegsrguy

    thegsrguy Notebook Deity

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    There are 2.5" high-speed drives for servers. We have some HPs that use them, but they're ridiculously expensive and probably gobble up lots of power.
     
    thegsrguy, Jul 19, 2008
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  4. Mr._Kubelwagen

    Mr._Kubelwagen More machine now than man

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    You're most likely thinking of the VelociRaptor, which indeed is a 2.5' hard drive in a 3.5' enclosure designed for maximum cooling. There's a reason it needs that enclosure. Your laptop would fry if you were to stick a 10k RPM hard drive in it.
     
    Mr._Kubelwagen, Jul 19, 2008
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  5. Phil

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    At the rate that SSD prices are coming down, the need for 10k RPM laptop drives is getting smaller and smaller.
     
    Phil, Jul 19, 2008
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  6. GamerPro25

    GamerPro25 Notebook Consultant

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    GamerPro25, Jul 19, 2008
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    sas? that's a server drive, so not it cannot be used in a laptop (i dont know of any with an scsi adapter). They can be used in desktops, but only by using a sas hba.
     
    jisaac, Jul 19, 2008
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    northwood Notebook Guru

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    northwood, Jul 19, 2008
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  9. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    sorry people.

    notebooks CANNOT USE 10k RPM drives... PERIOD.

    they are meant for slimline servers or portable workstations.
     
    Gophn, Jul 19, 2008
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  10. John Kotches

    John Kotches Notebook Evangelist

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    I have new 10u servers that use 10K 2.5" SAS drives. Sun Microsystems has moved over just about all of their servers to these drives over the last few years.
     
    John Kotches, Jul 19, 2008
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  11. KUNFUCHOPSTICKS

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    Enterprises don't use "VelociRaptors" in their servers.

    Either SCSI or Serial attached SCSI.
     
    KUNFUCHOPSTICKS, Jul 19, 2008
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  12. K-TRON

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

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    They can be used in laptops, but they wont even spin up cause most laptops do not have a 12volt line let alone a large enough one to even spin up the velociraptor. Your out of luck, just get the new core SSD from OCZ, or a nice speedy 7200rpm drive.

    I think I am going to mod my laptop to use a 146Gb Hitachi 15,000rpm Ultrastar I have, But I will need to find the pinout on the SCSI 320 port, so I can make a SCSI to SATA adaptor, but I will have to find out if that is even possible.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Jul 19, 2008
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  13. GamerPro25

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    nevermind

    /facepalm
     
    GamerPro25, Jul 19, 2008
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    I know its counter productive but when I had my Asus Z84j notebook with e-sata I just used a 150gb raptor in an esata enclosure and could boot off that, just like it was an internal drive, obviously not very good for portability, but it was a desktop repalcement for me.
     
    Silvr6, Jul 19, 2008
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  15. GamerPro25

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    how did that work out for you?
     
    GamerPro25, Jul 20, 2008
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  16. Tricks.

    Tricks. Notebook Consultant

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    Whats wrong with good old SSD lol?
     
    Tricks., Jul 20, 2008
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  17. Bog

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    SSDs still don't have any power management features. They actually consume more power than conventional HDDs at the moment.
     
    Bog, Jul 20, 2008
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    If you want speed go with SSD. The using more power thing was retracted by Tomshardware. They use less power than regular hard drives.
     
    atbnet, Jul 20, 2008
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  19. Phil

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    Sometimes they use less, sometimes they use more. Link.
     
    Phil, Jul 20, 2008
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  20. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    Huh. I looked it up. Thanks for the heads-up on that.
     
    Bog, Jul 20, 2008
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  21. Bog

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    I've talked to a lot of people on this forum who aren't aware of the consequences of getting totally ripped computers with quad-core CPUs and threesome-SLI setups into a cramped and crippled system in terms of cooling. I just point it out for the poster's sake, so that they don't end up disappointed with a huge purchase.
     
    Bog, Jul 20, 2008
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  22. GamerPro25

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    well, i'm not going crazy over stuff, that's why i'm ASKING before i CONSIDER buying something like that, if something is outside my scope, I tend to ask those who know, as the old saying is, only fools rush in.
     
    GamerPro25, Jul 21, 2008
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