i'm going to be buying the y500 or the newest upgrade y510p and i was wondering if i should buy a hard drive to replace the 5400rpm 1tb hard drive and replace it, with a 7200 rpm hdd for example and i would like if someone could recommend what i should do and if it is worth replacing the 5400rpm drive with something different.
-
-
could you recommend a good ssd for this laptop? i am thinking 128gb.
-
-
I recomend the seagate 750gb 7200rpm hybrid hdd as a primary or secondary. Fast, cool, an quiet.
Sent from my BlackBerry 9900 using Tapatalk -
If you want speed, spend $200 and put a 256GB mSATA SSD into your system. Run your OS, applications, and games off of that.
Your 2.5" SATA HDD drive should be used as a bulk storage drive for media content (music, photos, videos, pr0n, etc). For those purposes, you want a 5400rpm drive because it draws less power and generates less heat than a 7200rpm drive. For bulk storage purposes, HDD spindle speed is irrelevant. An MP3 audio file or MKV BluRay rip will playback equivalently well on a 5400rpm or 7200rpm drive.
Even if cost was not an issue, and someone gave me a 7200rpm drive, I'd still choose to put a 5400rpm drive in my system.
lenovo y500/y510p hard drive?
Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Air tree, Jun 4, 2013.