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Posted by mike on January 17, 2008, 3:01 pm
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adrianmachland@gmx.at wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm new here so I should actually introduce myself, but it is a very
> urgent question I have:
>
> I'm planning to buy a Dell XPS M1530, Core 2 Duo 2.2. GHz, 3 GB RAM
> and a 250 GB SATA 5400 rpm (14ms mean).
>
> I'm anxious that this harddrive might be too slow and actually present
> a performance bottleneck.
> Unfortunately, Dell doesn't offer an optional other HD on these
> machines.
>
> Does anybody have any, especially negative expereience with this type
> of harddrives? I'm most concerned about performance, but reliability
> is of course also an issue.
>
> Does anyone here actually have a direct comparison between the 7200
> rpm and the 5400 s Dell is offering nowadays in their notebooks?
>
> Thanks so much for your input.
>
> Adrian
I had to send my 7200RPM drive back for replacement. Used a 5400 in the
meantime. It's an uncontrolled experiment and there are many factors and
I don't have any numbers. Let's just say that I was really glad to get
back my 7200RPM drive. I don't normally do sustained read/writes where
the speed should matter. But the FEEL of the laptop was different by
more than I expected.
YMMV
mike
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