hdd speed

I was thinking of configuring the dv9500 with the dual 160gb 5400rpm hard drives. But im now thinking that i should go with 720 rpm hard drives.

The primary uses for this computer would be gaming, 3d applications, and softwares such as After Effects and video editing suites... will this make a big difference? if so, how? im not familiar with how the speeds affect performance. What should i choose?

An explanation of how this affects would be great! thanks!!

Alex.

 

anyone? please..

Alex

 

It will help with loading times and start up. It's not going to be a huge difference though. We're talking seconds here, not minutes. The biggest improvement will probably be in games that constantly need to load data from the HD. Generally, it's believed that the difference between a 4000ish (I forgot if they're 4200 or 4800) RPM and a 5400 RPM is a big change. But the difference between a 5400 and a 7200 RPM is not that large. Especially with things like perpendicular reading, a 5400 RPM drive can be as fast as many 7200 RPM. A solid 7200 RPM drive would be the Hitachi 7k200. It's probably the best laptop 7200 RPM HD. If you can afford the 7200 RPM, why not? If you can't I wouldn't worry too much about the lose in performance. I would comment on the effects stuff, but I'm not too familiar with those programs. I just know a little about the gaming aspect. Hope this helps.

Edit: Also if you do a search I believe there are some more topics on just this issue which should help you out.

 

Thank you! thats a good start

Alex

 

Dell sells 7200rpm 160GB Seagate for $116 delivered today, so hurry up!!! By reviews this beast is one of the best on the market today.

 

i have a 10,000 rpm in my pc and a 5,400 rpm in my laptop i really don't see a difference but im not running tests, for me the 5,400 runs great

 

I up graded from a 4200rpm to a 7200 rpm yesterday... the differences were, AMAZING!!! Intallations are very fast so are game load times, there werent much difference in game performance, but i am very happy with te upgraded.

a Hitachi Travelstar 80GB 7200rpm by the way!

 

Yeah I heard the jump from 4200 RPM to anything higher is a big jump. tse727 could you elaborate on how the performance is better? I have my 7k200 sitting in front of me waiting to be installed once I get my new laptop, but right now I've only used a 4200 RPM for extended periods of time. I think a more detailed explanation would be helpful to the original poster, as well as, myself. I know what's supposed to happen, I just don't have the real world experience of that jump.

 

ok... sorry about that! I was just too happy with my hdd! lol

I have previously been using the 4200rpm 60GB toshiba hdd that was part of the original set up of my notebook for the last 3 years. After Advicesfrom NBR members i decided it was time for an upgrade. After further research i found out that i would need a ATA IDE (lots of names eg ATA-100, ATAPI but all the same thing) drive, not PATA or SATA.

So i went out to buy a 80GB 7200rpm Hitachi Travelstar yesterday. only Hitachi 2.5'' 7200rpm HDDs are avaliable in Hong Kong and 100GB werent avaliable that day thats why i went with the 80GB.

So i installed the hdd, booted my notebook up with my original recovery disc, and formatted the hdd AND installed windows within a hour (i know it could be quicker but i was watching TV hehe so i only when back to it every 20 min or so). All the drivers installed within 10min. everything was ready to go after 2hrs.

Copied my steamapps (CS:S and other games) which was about 6GB from my 5400 external via USB to my hdd within 5 min. CS:S booted up very quickly and so was the level load time.

1 thing that really surprised me was the temp. of the hdd, my old toshiba idled at 45C whereas my Hitachi idled at 35C... Boot time is much quicker and everything just felt much much quicker in general. Since i have never had a 7200rpm before i am both surprised and happy with the improvement!

 

I have the 160gb Seagate and it is great and the responce time is very good

 

I also have gotten one of the Seagate 160 gig 7200 rpm drives today. WOW what a huge difference. Boots WAY faster, loads way faster, and everything is way faster. WAY cooler, now my laptop doesn't doesn't feel hot anymore. This was from a Fujitsu 5400rpm 100 gig.