looking for 7200 rpm hdd (uses same bat life as 5400 rpm)

^^ ive read somewhere that there was one i just neglected to find out. because ive just upgraded my ram to 2gb from 512, and i dont see much of a difference.

 

the notebook Harddrive should not be concerned for power consumption.

The new 7200 rpm drives don't use more than 3 watts.

So if you want better batterylife, worry about your CPU power options and LCD brightness settings.

 

As long as we're on the topic of hard drives, is there any reason to get a terabyte hard drive, other then having a ton of storage? What kind files actually take so much room that having a terabyte hard drive is useful?

 

You can compare the maximum and idle power consumptions at the Tom's Hardware 2.5" HDD charts. Also read this recent review.

There's also a set of power drain measurements in Table 2 of this Digit Life article.

John

 

Why not get a 5400rpm HDD with the performance of a 7200rpm drive instead??? like the new 250gb models.

As for 1TB of space. Well thats pretty easy actually.

Games can take up nearly 10gb (I just had to uninstall tomb raider legend the other day 9.X GB) then movies can take up a couple of GB, if your into HD movies tho, thats where the REAL space hog is 10gb into higher 22+GB for a single movie.

Its cheaper to buy some hdd's and download them, then it is to buy a player and the movie.

Then anybody that edits movies and stuff, raw video takes up tons of space. I have recorded some video game footage with FRAPS and it eats up like 1gb per 30 seconds or somthing obscene like that.

Also then there are photography enthusiast that take high resolution pictures, they can eat up alot of space since usually they take 5-10 shots of the same thing. I know guys at my sister forum that take 200+ pictures a day and in a losless format they take up tons of space. (except .raw is pretty good)

I have a 250gb drive myself and find myself on a monthly basis having to burn 5-10+ dvds to keep some space on there. 1tb is abit big for my taste tho I would be afraid of it failing Also just seems like it would have poor performance, but its probably much the opposite like the 250gb 2.5" drives it may be faster due to higher data density.

The premium is too high tho right now, its cheaper for 2 x 500gb drives, then you can raid them aswell to get data redundancy if you have stuff on there you dont want to lose, there is raid 0 aswell if your into that kind of stuff and want to see if you get a speed boost. Id personally just run them as stock drives with no raid.