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how can you tell the rpm of your HDD?

post #1 of 14
5/7/06 at 1:11am
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Ok so im trying to see if my HDD is 7200 rpm as advertised I tried several system checking software but none of them specify the rpm of the drive any suggestions?
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post #2 of 14
5/7/06 at 1:33am
Hey UniverseL107,
I don't believe there is a utility that measures the drives maxium rpm, there are utilities that measure access time and the amount of data read per second. You just have to check the part number against the manufactures specification. Aleast I have never see one.
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post #3 of 14
5/7/06 at 1:37am
look in your device manager and get the model of your disk drive and google it...
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post #4 of 14
5/7/06 at 3:10am
Use Sisoft Sandra and do a File system benchmark. Compare the results with other 7200 rpm drives
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post #5 of 14
5/7/06 at 11:15am
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Originally Posted by av8or
look in your device manager and get the model of your disk drive and google it...
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post #6 of 14
5/7/06 at 11:35am
if all of the above fails, open up your drive while it's running, look straight at the spinning disc for one minute and count how many times it spins.
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post #7 of 14
5/7/06 at 11:42am
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Originally Posted by av8or
look in your device manager and get the model of your disk drive and google it...


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Originally Posted by dinkenstein
if all of the above fails, open up your drive while it's running, look straight at the spinning disc for one minute and count how many times it spins.
It usually helps if you get a pen and mark the platter first, makes it easier to count...
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post #8 of 14
5/7/06 at 12:13pm
Thought I'd stick this in here rather than clutter the place with another thread.

I ordered the m1710 and rather than plump for the 7200rpm drive I just stuck with the 5400 model (just as I did with the I9100 I'm typing on). Is there any major difference? I wouldn't have thought so but I'm curious as to what (if any) real gains in terms of FPS the faster drive will give you.

Anybody know?
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post #9 of 14
5/7/06 at 12:27pm
1800rpm.

Other than that though there isn't that much difference, and certain not in terms of FPS etc...
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post #10 of 14
5/7/06 at 12:37pm
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1800rpm
Saw that a mile off That's more or less what I thought though, not too bothered about sustained read/write times really.
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post #11 of 14
5/7/06 at 12:38pm
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Originally Posted by tuatha
Thought I'd stick this in here rather than clutter the place with another thread. I ordered the m1710 and rather than plump for the 7200rpm drive I just stuck with the 5400 model (just as I did with the I9100 I'm typing on). Is there any major difference? I wouldn't have thought so but I'm curious as to what (if any) real gains in terms of FPS the faster drive will give you. Anybody know?
There are slight access time differences, very slight as "K9387" mentioned. I noticed when I purchased my notebook that the 60GB 5400rpm haddrive had a 2 Meg cache and the 80 GB 5400RPM drive had a 8Meg cache. I would rather have a larger hardrive cache as I believe that this will decrease access times in the real world (not just pump up a bench mark program) then the difference between a 7200RPM drive over a 5400RPM drive. My 2 Cents
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post #12 of 14
5/7/06 at 5:58pm
My 60GB 5400RPM has 8MB cache, so YMMV.
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post #13 of 14
5/7/06 at 7:13pm
8 meg cache on the 5400 rpm drive apparently so I'm assuming that's good news. Cheers for the info anyway.

Now if it'd just hurry up abd get here... even to get it's arse out of pre-production would be something
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post #14 of 14
5/7/06 at 7:30pm
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Originally Posted by 911medic
My 60GB 5400RPM has 8MB cache, so YMMV.

I knew my HDD was an 80GB spinning at 5400rpms. I decided to google it just for the sake of it and it has a 16MB cache. Cool!

Prince
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