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Posted by upgrdman on April 8, 2006, 3:02 pm
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I have a new laptop, and it seems like the big bottle neck is the speed
of the HDD. It's a Fujitsu P7000 and appearantly has a "30 GB; 4200
rpm; P-ATA 100; shock-mounted" HDD.
See
http://www.computers.us.fujitsu.com/www/products_notebooks.shtml?products/notebooks/tech_specs/p7120_p7120d_ts
for more info.
I know they make 5400 rpm laptop HDDs, but my big question is, what
HDD's in the laptop world are known for having the most speed. And are
there any to aviod?
Price is somewhat important, but I can spend up to about $400, and will
be fine with 30-40GB as long as it's significantly faster than my stock
HDD.
I'd appriciate any input,
Thank you,
--Farrell F.
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Posted by Bert Hyman on April 8, 2006, 3:43 pm
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upgrdman@gmail.com wrote:
> I know they make 5400 rpm laptop HDDs, but my big question is, what
> HDD's in the laptop world are known for having the most speed. And are
> there any to aviod?
They make 7200 laptop drives now.
> Price is somewhat important, but I can spend up to about $400, and
> will be fine with 30-40GB as long as it's significantly faster than my
> stock HDD.
For less than US$200 (I'm assuming that you're in the US) you can get a
100GB 7200RPM drive.
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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert@iphouse.com
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Posted by Barry Watzman on April 8, 2006, 3:57 pm
Please log in for more thread options Actually they make 5400 and 7200 rpm laptop drives. The issue probably
is the rotational speed. At the same rotational speed, there is almost
no difference between different drive models, although models with a
larger cache size my provide a slight difference. But, in any case, the
older and slower 4200 rpm drives are just that .... older and slower.
upgrdman@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a new laptop, and it seems like the big bottle neck is the speed
> of the HDD. It's a Fujitsu P7000 and appearantly has a "30 GB; 4200
> rpm; P-ATA 100; shock-mounted" HDD.
>
> See
>
http://www.computers.us.fujitsu.com/www/products_notebooks.shtml?products/notebooks/tech_specs/p7120_p7120d_ts
> for more info.
>
> I know they make 5400 rpm laptop HDDs, but my big question is, what
> HDD's in the laptop world are known for having the most speed. And are
> there any to aviod?
>
> Price is somewhat important, but I can spend up to about $400, and will
> be fine with 30-40GB as long as it's significantly faster than my stock
> HDD.
>
> I'd appriciate any input,
>
> Thank you,
>
> --Farrell F.
>
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Posted by _DD on April 8, 2006, 8:26 pm
Please log in for more thread options On 8 Apr 2006 12:02:07 -0700, upgrdman@gmail.com wrote:
>I have a new laptop, and it seems like the big bottle neck is the speed
>of the HDD. It's a Fujitsu P7000 and appearantly has a "30 GB; 4200
>rpm; P-ATA 100; shock-mounted" HDD.
>
>See
>http://www.computers.us.fujitsu.com/www/products_notebooks.shtml?products/notebooks/tech_specs/p7120_p7120d_ts
>for more info.
>
>I know they make 5400 rpm laptop HDDs, but my big question is, what
>HDD's in the laptop world are known for having the most speed. And are
>there any to aviod?
>
>Price is somewhat important, but I can spend up to about $400, and will
>be fine with 30-40GB as long as it's significantly faster than my stock
>HDD.
>
>I'd appriciate any input,
>
>Thank you,
>
>--Farrell F.
Farrel,
I prefer Seagate. Make sure the drive's warranty is valid for 5 years
(should be, on retail-boxed Seagates via reputable vendors).
Here's a list of drives + model numbers + access times when I could
find them (a very general indication of one aspect of speed, but
transfer rate is also related to rotational speed). You want ATA.
I've listed SATA as well for anyone else looking for info.
Model ST910021A will leave your current drive in the dust, and should
be less than your budget. Check pricegrabber.com, but check up on
vendors. Newegg or Zipzoomfly are good bets.
Seagate drives:
5400rpm ATA:
160gb: ST9160821a
120gb: ST9120821A 12.5 ms avg
100gb: ST9100823A 12.5 ms avg
100gb: ST9100824A 12.5 ms avg
5400rpm SATA:
120gb: ST9120821AS 12.5 ms avg
100gb: ST9100824AS 12.5 ms avg
7200rpm ATA:
100gb: ST910021A 10.5 ms avg
7200rpm SATA
100gb: ST910021AS 10.5 ms avg
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Posted by William P.N. Smith on April 9, 2006, 12:43 pm
Please log in for more thread options upgrdman@gmail.com wrote:
>I have a new laptop, and it seems like the big bottle neck is the speed
>of the HDD. It's a Fujitsu P7000 and appearantly has a "30 GB; 4200
>rpm
I'm surprised that they are still selling laptops with 30G drives, but
yes that sounds like a serious bottleneck. Look to newegg.com for a
7200RPM drive, lots of different options. I'm kinda partial to
Hitachi drives myself...
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