The DV2000T with a 7200RPM HDD

I know they dont allow it but i was thinking if i bought it i would get the 7200RPM Hitachi 100GB HDD for like 170, which is around the same price hp wants for the 120GB HDD i was just wondering is it really worth it? will i even notice it doing daily stuff like running photoshop/illustrator/etc or is it a waste of money? i have a desktop with 7200PRM 2MB buffer HDD and it seems kinda slow maybe i dunno maybe its cuz i got a celeron d processor though and if i do get the 7200 is it possible to get the hp with the 40gb then when i do get it just take it out immediately then put in the 100gb then install xp with my cd then just find all the drivers i need from the hp website on my other comp then burn to a cd then install on the laptop?

 

It depends on what you consider a difference. If you install a 7200 rpm drive as opposed to the 5400 drive that comes with the notebook, you'll probably notice about a 30 percent decrease overall in the time needed to load something. If you're opening a word file, the difference will probably be negligible, while you'll see a tremendous difference when opening up a 1GB video file.

Hope this helps.

 

For a laptop, the primary concern is which one cost more power or generate much heat than other. 4200 is known to be slow, and most importantly much hot than 5400. So far there haven't much comparison between 7200 and 5400. 7200 just mean spining speed. You should compare the actual throughput where accessing time and bus speed are taken into account. How would 7200RPM perform in term of heat? Not much review yet.

If you consider to swape your HD, then think about what you should do with the replaced (40 GB) drive. New HP models as well as others are using SATA. But there aren't many SATA interface HD enclosure available yet. So your 40 GB will be wasted for a while. The actual price you've paid for 100GB is 40GB(to HP)+100GB(to third party). So is it still worthy?

 

I dont do video editing i will be opening up alot of .psd photoshop files but nothing that really exceeds 20mb

 

i have a 7200rpm on my v2000z, and my gfs laptop is 5400pm and honestly i would not go back to 5400rpm, anytime i plan on getting a new laptop and think about what it will cost me to get a new 7200rpm and how much i can get out of the built in one. with photoshop you will probably notice a differnce. so i say get it.

the only major concern is the heat, just dont put it on carpet or ontop of your bed, glad the extended battery has the bulge that lifts the laptop up for more ventilation.

with installation, i think windows xp should be able to support most, but what you really need is just a back up of the wireless or nic drivers, once you get that working you could go on microsoft update site and update all the driver.

 

I agree with Totalfixation.
The 7200RPM is definitely worth it.
Actually, there are quite a few reviews about 5400RPM and 7200RPM.
Here is one of them.
Here is another one.

Nowadays, 4200RPM is just a joke; 5400RPM is OK for people browsing the Internet or doing word processing.
For anything else, you should get a 7200RPM.
BTW, a 7200RPM doesn't draw any significantly more power than a 5400RPM, and it depends on brand too; some 5400RPM draw more power than the 7200 counterpart.

The lack of 2.5 SATA case is a valid concern though.
But having it sitting there for a little bit is much better than having to wait for the **** slow disc to load for the duration of the life of your notebook.

 

Make sure to back up all your drivers in swsetup before you install a fresh XP! HP's website is a joke when it comes to drivers.

 

If you need a 7200rpm HDD for image process, how do you think have another external HDD with USB2.0 interface?
You can choose large capacity and fast HDD.

But, you need another power line and it's hard to carry with notebook.

Now I have 80G HDD IEEE1394 7200rpm. It's good to use for photoshop.
I use that hard disk for scratch disk of photoshop and image storage.
But, whenever I have to move... it's impossible to carry it. -.-;;