the preformance and batt diff with 5400/7200rpm hdd

Hello whats the actual difference performance wise to a 5400 rpm hdd to a 7200prm. I was thinking about getting one but what would change besides a bit maybe a small increase in write speed.

Would it justify the ammont of batt power lost?

I have a g2s-a1 so i was wondern.

 

Depends on what you do with your computer. If you do web design and things of the like, yes and if you mostly surf the internet and just putts around, why even spend the extra money on that fast of a HD.

 

The battery life may be knocked off about 10 min or so...personally I refuse to use a laptop if it doesn't have a 7200RPM drive...and I'd like to refuse desktops without 10k RPM drives but that doesn't happen ...

7200RPM will boot a LOT faster too bro =)

 

I emailed Hitachi and they told me that they were not going to make mobile 10 and 15k rpm harddrives. I was so disappointed. The reasoning is simple though, the platters would simply explode if any lind of vibration via movement occured. It makes sense because 10000 rpm is really fast, and servers dont move much.

Damn, I hope technology advances, and they make the heads and platters more durable, so that some can put 15000 rpm harddrives in their notebooks.

I also prefer 7200rpm drives, but a good 160gb or greater 5400rpm has enough data density that they outpace some 7200rpm drives.

The ultimate notebook drive is the 7K200, it is the fastest notebook drive and it uses onlyy 800mah, which is much less power than the 7K100 series which uses 1100mah.

K-TRON

 

yeah whats the vista boot time difference has any1 found that out? Also were can i find 160gig + 7200rpm hdds and weres a place that sells em cheaper than most places.

Also whats a good program that completely clones the whole hdd even the hidden partitions *asus recovery partition*

 

It isn't necessarily just read and write speed. The larger, denser drives such as the 250GB and upcoming 320GB drives can match the smaller 7200RPM drives in reads and writes.

It is the seek times which are quicker with a faster spindle speed.

 

whats a web site that sells 160+gb hdds for cheaper than most competitors.

 

I would just go with 7200 rpm, power and heat nowadays from the latest 7200 drives is near enough the same as a 5400. Plus you will notice a nice performance increase.

 

thats thinking backwards.
the future of harddrives (already here) is solid state.
its only a matter of time before ssd's surpass capacities of spinning drives and become more affordable

 

Space+Battery+Speed+Soundless= 320GB Samsung