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    R3000Z Hard drive upgrade

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Kc_com_guy, Jan 16, 2005.

  1. Kc_com_guy

    Kc_com_guy Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm thinking about geting the R3000Z and if I do I will want to upgrade the HD from 4200rpm to 7200rpm. So does any one know where I could get a 60GB 7200rpm HD for a good price that would work well on this laptop.

    thank you!
     
    Kc_com_guy, Jan 16, 2005
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  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    wgehrke Notebook Consultant

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    FYI: I just completed a benchmark test on the three drives for my notebook. I use the notebook for my video editing with Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5. After you have a finished project in the Timeline Window you can export the whole project in many different formats. One format that is a highly disk intensive is just to export the whole movie as an .avi file. Here are the results of the time it took to export my very short test file with three different speed disk drives.

    Hitachi "7K60" 60 GB 7200 rpm 13 seconds
    Seagate 100 GB 5400 rpm 18 seconds
    Hitachi 40 GB 4200 rpm 23 seconds

    (Exporting to mpeg is more CPU intensive than disk intensive, very little difference was noticed.)
    As soon as the Seagate 100 GB 7200 rpm drives hit the market I will be buying one!!
    http://www.seagate.com/content/docs/pdf/marketing/Seagate_Momentus_7200-1.pdf

    Bill :::: zv5000z :: 3200+ :: 1GB :: 100GB 5400rpm :: 15.4" WSXGA+ (1680x1050) :: XP Pro
     
    wgehrke, Jan 18, 2005
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