What is the fastest Laptop Hard Drive available?

I have a sager 5760 and it seems like it's constantly thinking. Anyone out there know of a faster Hard drive or is this problem something else other than the HD?

 

A 7200rpm is the fastest spinning drive, but SSD's are faster....and will cost you an arm and a leg.

 

If you are referring to the hard disk being accessed contantly, then its quite normal. So long as you haven't noticed any slowdown, you should be fine. Just make sure you defragment regularly. If you still feel the system is a little slow, then you may want to consider a hard disk upgrade.

 

I would truelly advice deframentation, it really helps. I used to defrag my hard drive a lot, now that I don't do that anymore (1% space left ) I really lag in games like America's Army, SupCom and CS:S.

But answer to your question: the fastest hard drive is the 200 GB 7200 rpm 8 MB cache hard drive from Hitachi. Not for sale on Newegg though.

 

If you have not defragmented your drive in a while you should do it, but the more extreme measure would be to reformat it. Formatting a drive is tricky, as you have to wipe it clean and re-install everything, and backup all of your important data before doing that.

 

How does the average normal 7200 rpm drive compare with the average hybrid 5400 rpm drive in terms of speed?

 

The hybrid 5400 would probably be faster for short bursts, but the 7200 drive would have greater endurance for larger file usage.

 

Solid State hard drives are available on the Dell Latitude ATG D620. I vote for the Solid State hard drive.

 

SSD's are the fastest by far, but the only problem is that they are not available to the average consumer yet, and the prices are sky high, as well as degradation over time. I would not even consider such a drive as a viable replacement for a hard drive until PRAM becomes widely available.

 

I prefer solid state hard drives because they are more durable to damage caused by physical trauma.

 

7200 will give you slightly faster sustained read/write speeds, and a very small increase in seek times. But it often not even noticable to the "average" user. Read/Write speed are also a funtion of density, so a higher density 5400 RPM drive can compare well to a lowe density 7200 drive. If you look at the average 160GB 5400 drive and a 100GB 7200 drive they are not that different. There will be a very small performance gap, but when you concider that the 160GB 5400RPM drive will likely be cheaper and it has more space, I'd stick with a good 5400 RPM drive.

 

Well I was considering a new hard disk (7200) since I thought it would improve the performance. Now I have Vista that is using Superfetch filling my 2Gb RAM to the last MB. Now I am not so sure that I would go for a faster disk. As Charlie (Notebook solutions) said - i saw some nice improvement in Vista by defragmenting (I even got 2GB free on my 40 GB partition - probably some compression took place) and I have a feeling that Vista is not so dependant on disk speed like XP was. I also had 2GB ram on the XP machine. Vista seems to be more fluent - no harsh disk activity anymore.
To illustrate that - if I turn on the disk spin down in NHC - in Vista it can be quiet for a long periods of time. In XP it would periodically wake for no obvious reason (like I was doing nothing and it would spin up anyway).

And by the way I turned on the advanced cache that is available in Vista. I tested my 5400 disk with HD tach and it is clearly more fluent than with the normal cache. Speed was the same of course, but there were no big oscillations.

So I am just wondering is it better to have 2GB ram and 5400 or buy 7200 and wait for ram a bit? Some people are having this problem, and I would vote for more RAM. Especially on a notebook.

Cheers,

Ivan

 

I think the seagate momentus 7200.2 may be the fastest.

 

how's that compare to the hitachi 7k200?

 

The latest Samsung HDDs are about to arrive in Europe. 7200rpm 200GB and 5400rpm 250GB. The latter was discussed in this thread.

I expect, based on past tests, that the Hitachi 7200 200GB will take the performance crown but the Samsungs will not be far behind and will run cooler and quieter.

John

 

How about now? Fastest 5400 rpm SATA?

 

Please do not revive old threads.

The fastest 5400rpm drive at the moment is a 320Gb drive from WD and Samsung.
The fastest 7200rpm drive is the 200Gb 7K200.

This has been addressed many times, in hundreds of threads.
Please use the search button before reviving old threads.

K-TRON

 

I am amazed that no one has pointed out that the 5400rpm 320gb drives are faster than the 7200rpm 200gb drives. they also use less power.

The fastest HDD available is a 320gb 5400rpm drive (I forget which one though, google it)

 

Exactly my point kind sir: 'old' threads. As we all know, 3-6 months is a lifetime in things like hard discs sometimes.. Would be nice to update an older thread than create a new one IMHO.

 

thank you, I can take it from there, I just saw a 320gb at BB, have to check into newegg or someone online.

 

Hi Coriolis, what exactly is the difference between the regular HDD's and the SSD's?

 

2.5" harddrives are mechanical drives consisting of rotating disks.
a SSD is a storage device which uses flash memory.
SSD's are quiet, in some cases like the M-TRON 7000 series, are faster, and about 10 x as expensive.

K-TRON