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    which HD to get help compare

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by joystik, Jun 24, 2008.

  1. joystik

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    stealthsniper96 What Was I Thinkin'?

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    Someone correct me if i'm wrong, but I dont' think laptops can use 3 gb/s. The reviews look to be pretty much the same. I would say go with the seagate cus its cheaper. But also, you can get a 250 gig drive cheaper, so think about that too (but it'll be 5400 rpm instead of 7200).
     
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    yeah, i'm really looking for a 7200rpm... thats what i'm running now, and at times.. it can still be slow. I might need a new proc, the t7500 is getting slow.
     
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    A 250 gig 5400 should be faster than a 120 gig 7200. But hard drives aren't my specialty so wait for someone to confirm that.
     
    stealthsniper96, Jun 24, 2008
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    A 250gb 5400 drive will be faster than a 120gb 7200rpm drive in bandwidth and read/write speeds. The 7200rpm drive will only have faster access times. However the higher data density of the 5400rpm drive generates more bandwidth to compensate for the slower access times.

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    so which would be the better buy...

    200gb 7200rpm
    250gb 5400rpm
     
    joystik, Jun 25, 2008
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    200gb 7200
     
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    I triple that response. The 7k200 from Hitachi or the 200gb momentus from seagate are able to maintain speeds of 52mb/sec which is faster than the 44mb/sec of a 250gb 5400rpm drive.

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    Intel's chipset supports SATA/300; however, the hard drive will never be able to take advantage of the difference so it won't matter performance wise.
     
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    I'd like to add that the 200GB Seagate Momentus 7200.2 is overall a slower drive than the Hitachi 7K200, so if you can get the Hitachi.

    Actually a 250GB Hitachi 5K250 (5400 rpm) will outperform a Seagate Momentus 7200.2 in many areas.
     
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    How do you plan to use it?
    As your system disk or external disk?
    What applications/games are most important to you?
     
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    it'll be my system disk. Games dont matter much to me, since i don't play them too often. I use adobe softwares alot, and lots of 3d cad/modeling/rendering programs.
     
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    Well a good SSD is the fastest but the most expensive. After that it's the 320GB Hitachi 7K200 or Western Digital Black Scorpio (around $200, just becoming available). A bit slower and cheaper than that is the Hitachi 7K200 200GB. A bit slower and cheaper than that are the 320GB 5400rpm HDDs like WD Scorpio.
     
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