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post #1 of 6
7/14/06 at 3:21pm
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Recently, in my never ending quest for finding a notebook, I emailed a question to Sony about the harddrive rpms in their Vaio notebooks. The response I got was:

"We do not have any notebooks that have a 7200 rpm hard drive and those hard drives are only available on the desktop computers. It would also not be advisable on upgrading the hard drive to a faster rpm because you can overheat the components on the inside and it would void the warranty for the that part."

Now, I was wondering what the possibilities were of something like the overheating happening. Has anyone had any experience in upgrading their harddrive to a faster rpm or have any knowledge they would like to pass on to me? Any help and I will be eternally grateful
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post #2 of 6
7/14/06 at 3:43pm
if price is not the issue, upgrade it to 7200rpm whenever u can.
i personally would keep it under 80gb in size. heat is not so much of an issue but noise, though the new ones nowadays are quiet even with 100gb in size

cheers ...
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post #3 of 6
7/14/06 at 3:59pm
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Nope price isnt the issue here. I was planning on buying the cheapest harddrive I could from Sony and then going out to buy a 7200 RPMer. You don't think I should have any problems with that?
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post #4 of 6
7/14/06 at 9:51pm
I upgraded from a 4200 rpm drive to a 7200 rpm Hitachi 80 gb drive in my Acer 5002 LMi with nary a problem with either heat or noise. So long as your system recongnizes the new drive, you should not have any problems. Seagate is also putting out a very highly rated 7200 rpm laptop drive.
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post #5 of 6
7/16/06 at 1:49am
Yea that sony guy is full of sh*t.

1. 7200rpm hds desktop only .. WOW! Ive ran 7200rpm 60gb hd in my 5680 3+yrs ago w/ a full blown desktop proc (3.2ghz).

2.Heat? BS! maybe 5-10 degrees

3.IF it stresses the components that much, then thier laptops have to be not the toughest rock on the shore....
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post #6 of 6
7/16/06 at 1:59am
actually, the 7200 is hotter than a 5400, but cooler than a 4200. What explains that is to open a file, the 7200 spins for less time than a 4200, so it parks and has time to cool, while the 4200 has to keep spinning and thus has no time to cool down. the 5400 gets the job done faster than a 5400 and also has time to cool, but because its slower than a 7200 it never reaches quite a high temp to cool down from in the first place... interesting. battery life effect is the same, the 7200 will actually give you about 2% or 3% better battery life. I updated my thinkpad from a 4200 to 5400 and it works great...
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