Most popular hard drive speed.

For those of you who have tried both, do you observe a noticeable difference in everyday use?

edit: "less than 7200 rpm" should read "less than 5400 rpm"... oops

 

Over 7,200 rpm, not even possible. Unless you are talking desktop computers as well.

JC

 

Any computer you own is fair game. Whatever you want to represent (but really it's mostly a toss-up between 5400 and 7200)

I like your anti-piracy quote, btw.

 

I dont notice a huge difference if at all from my 7200rpm 16mb cache desktop hdd and my 8mb cache 5400rpm lappy hdd. Granted I know there is a difference but not huge enough to say WOW. I think the most popular lappy hdd speed is 5400 and desktop 7200...at least that seems like the average.

 

7200 for me, after trying to play oblivion on my old desktop with a 5400 HD, I knew I was going to get a 7200 to game.

Really the only difference your going to see with a faster hard drive, is faster boot up, less loading in games/apps, faster video/photo editing, If your burning from your HD it may be faster. Those are the only gains I can think of, I dont think it would affect something like FPS in a game, just the loading times.

 

for me 4200RPM --> 7200RPM was a HUGE improvement (more than double access speeds). 4200RPM HD was a disaster, even my USB2 external HD was faster! IMHO 7200RPM is the way to go, because hard drives are the bottleneck in modern computers, especially in laptops

 

What you're forgetting about is the page file, almost all games need one even if you have 1GB RAM, and some if you have 2. on my 7200RPM drive I have no problem enabling pagefile, but with slower drives I immediately notice slowdowns.

 

Hmm, I went from 4,200 rpm to 5,400 rpm, I noticed a different, my notebook starts alot faster and programs loads up faster.

Btw, thanks.

JC

 

i dont notice a difference between my desktops 7200rpm and my laptops 5400rpm

 

I don't have a notebook right now, but In my desktop I have 2x160GB Western Digital 7200RPM drives. Then I have a 80GB, 5400RPM external 2.5" notebook HD. Then a couple older random drives... In the future I hope to have a notebook with a 7200RPM drive... But I would upgrade it... It wouldn't come that way stock.

 

5400 for me, just for the battery life. Got a 7200 on my desktop, but the 5400 on my laptop feels just as fast.

 

Technically, you could make your own HD that spins faster than 7200RPM > it would take mad skillz though.

I run 7200 just becasue I don't care about battery life at all. (I have an Acer - all Acers are notorious for poor battery life anyway).

Plus, I am a perfomance lover.

 

Haha make it spin faster then 7200... rig a scsi drive to your laptop using pcmcia or express card or hookup up a raptor drive?

Anyway for my laptop I have 7200, but use a raptor on my desktop.

 

Desktop hd speeds are reaching 15,000 rpm +! That's pretty insane, though I doubt they're worth the hole in your pocket they burn. I'm gunna have a 7,200 rpm too.. faster sounds better.

 

Go perpendicular drives! If you haven't seen this Flash from Hitachi, you should!

Malia

 

@ Malia - absolutely.

Perpendicular technology is the last step before a complete transition into SSD flash discs that have 0 moving parts. This would mean VERY long hard drive life (nearly tens of decades, I would suppose). SSD is going to be inaugurated into the next hard drives by employing flash for the buffer regions.

 

what about a 10,000 rpm raptor drive in an enclosure connected via firewire/usb2?

 

Raptor via enclosure would work, but I hope that external enclosure is built of metal not plastic since Raptor drives tend to get pretty hot.

 

Is it possible to boot your notebook off of an external drive?

 

I dont think so...because the notebook needs to recognize the external hard drive while already booted.

 

Possible? Yes, but that depends on your laptop BIOS features. (It won't work with all laptops)

Sony Vaio SZ series can boot off an external USB hard drive. Just need to enable the external drive boot feature and have the USB drive on the boot order list before the internal drive... then it works perfectly. The BIOS detects the drive and it boots up off the external unit.

 

I run a 7200rpm on my laptop. Although it is calimed that 7200's are not as good as 5400's for battery life, I have not noticed a decrease on mine. I constantly get rounghly 6hrs (except when playing WoW--usually get 4hrs with this game). Maybe I'm just one of the lucky ones since I was expecting to get 3hrs max from my battery. 3hrs seems to be the standard with a lot of laptops.

ucb9999

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do tell what your laptop is plz? 6hrs

 

HP DV2000T should easily get 6 hours with the 12 cell battery.

 

OK jaybit, here are my laptop specs
E1505
15.4 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen SXGA+ Display with TrueLife™
Intel® Core™ Duo Proc T2500 (2GHz/667MHz/2 X 1MB L2 Cache)
Windows® XP Professional
1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 Dimm
80GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive
8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability
Dell Wireless 1390 802.11b/g Mini Card (54Mbps)
256MB ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON® X1400 HyperMemory™
Integrated Sound Blaster® Audigy™ HD Software Edition
85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery( I have 2 of these and each one gives me roughly 6hrs depending on whether or not I play WoW.)

ucb9999
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