What speed is your hard drive?

Just curious what most users use and care for - and why isnt 7200RPM the standard now and ship with every consumer line model? Even business lines are still using 5400. Is it because it drains the battery faster and as a result will be a negative when trying to market the laptops?

 

I used mostly 7200 drives for myself because of access speed. Others I know prefer 5400 drives for the small battery savings.

As for heat, I've seen both get equally hot.

 

Other. I've got a CF in my TC4200 and an SSD in my E6400

 

Just curious if any of you are running an ext USB drive on your laptop? Im considering getting one (1TB) but wondering which is the best route to go.

1) Run int. and ext. drives but in smaller capacities (ex 160GB and 1TB)
2) Run just int. at the largest capacity - 500GB

 

I use a 120GB mobile external. Its small, quiet and runs off of USB power.

 

for laptops, I prefer using 7200rpm drives, because they are generally faster at loading than 5400rpm drives.
However now that technology in the mechanical drive area has been advancing, most high density 5400rpm drives are very close in performance to the 7200rpm laptop drives.
I only use hitachi harddrives in my laptops

At home, my server/desktop both use 15,000rpm Hitachi ultrastar drives. They are low in capacity per unit dollar, but their sound and speed is amazing.

K-TRON

 

They're not the "standard" because they're still more expensive.

 

I had a 100GB, 7200RPM drive until a few days ago when I installed my new 500GB, 5400RPM drive.

P.S. The new 500GB drives are great!

7200RPM are popular because harddrives of the same size and data density spinning faster gives faster faster data access, which is good. It comes a a very small (but sometimes noticable) battery life reduction. Businesses don't like them because they cost more. Faster product combined with higher quality materials and designs (to handle the added stress and processing) costs more money. Spending more money is only to be done if it will make you money when running a business, consumers don't have the same issue.

 

I currently use an old-ish Western Digital 160GB 5400RPM drive but i'm going to upgrade it to either a 500GB 7200RPM drive (when they become available) or a 500GB 5400RPM.

Both should be a more than suitable upgrade

 

I had a 4200rpm 160GB drive in my notebook before, now i have a 7200rpm 320GB drive and it's alot faster, can't notice any drop in batterytime either. Guess it's because it's alot newer and has a greater power consumption.

Before i couldn't multitask without alot of delays, now it's all running smooth no matter how much i run at the same time. (~30MB/s ~20ms vs ~70MB/s 15ms does alot )

 

I'm the first one to vote for 4200 :x

 

You'll see major improvement if you upgrade with a 7200rpm on your vaio, so i think you really should consider it That kinda sucks with 4200rpm, it really slows down the performance and makes the notebook feel like an old stoneage computer

 

yeah, I will probably upgrade when 500 gb 7200 rpm drives are available, or bigger ssds become cheaper. it's not that bad tho, it really doesnt feel like stoneage

 

Well, you've gotten used to the lag (and i guess that you don't even feel it), but you'll see what i mean when you upgrade, and you'll notice it big time what the difference really is