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    Toshiba M30 w/ 7200rpm???

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by votoms888, Sep 26, 2007.

  1. votoms888

    votoms888 Notebook Geek NBR Reviewer

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    I have an old Satellite M30 that I wanna spruce up. It has served me well and in the last 3 years has only needed a power brick. I have upgraded to 2gigs of ram but everything is standard. It is still running the 60gig 4200rpm IDE drive. I was wondering what your guys opinion of upgrading to a 100gig 7200rpm drive would be. Mainly want it to perform a little better, not too worried about unwired performance as it is always plugged in.

    Would performance increase alot?

    Another thing is, I lost the recovery disks. If I do a clean install of XP Home, or XP Pro, is it possible that the speakers will be really quite? The same thing happened when I did a clean install of Vista Home Prem. on my M70. The Harman Kardon Speakers were crap after. Even at full volume I couldn't hear a thing.
     
    votoms888, Sep 26, 2007
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  2. Padmé

    Padmé NBR Super Pink Princess

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    I would absolutely upgrade to the 7200rpm hard drive.
     
    Padmé, Sep 27, 2007
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