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    what's the RPM of FZ series hard drives?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Duke2007, Jul 21, 2007.

  1. Duke2007

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    160 GB one to be exact.
     
    Duke2007, Jul 21, 2007
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    4200 rpm for 200 GB HDD.

    I am damn sure it's 5400 rpm for 120 GB.

    It should be 5400 for 160 GB's (check again)
     
    coolguy, Jul 21, 2007
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    It is!

    Gary
     
    ScuderiaConchiglia, Jul 21, 2007
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    any 7200 RPM?
     
    Duke2007, Jul 21, 2007
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    Generally there's only 5400 rpm applied in laptops which are dedicated in synthetical way.the specs should be listed in sonystyle website.
     
    townnal, Jul 21, 2007
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    No 7200 rpm option through Sony. But you can buy a 7200 rpm drive and swap it for the old one. You can buy an extrenal hard drive enclosure for the old drive so you can use it for backing up data.

    This was what I did and it works great and it is easy to do.
     
    GoSensGo, Jul 21, 2007
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    Sony outfits some of their AR series with a striped RAID array but they can't put 7200RPM drives into their machines. Stupid!
     
    bananapudding, Jul 22, 2007
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    Dear GoSensGo,
    have you partitioned your harddisk or have you used it all as C derive? I want to do the same but I am not sure whether it is good to use two paritions one for system and one for data. My imagination is 40 Gb for system and 120 Gb for data. I am not sure if that is ok..
     
    Gharnoug, Jul 23, 2007
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