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post #21 of 41
8/12/06 at 3:25pm
I format a lot, bout every 3 months so I like the 7200 and small 60gb. Makes formatting so much faster...
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post #22 of 41
8/12/06 at 3:31pm
Faster = Better

That's the simple out look, but true never the less.

I recently upgraded my desktop to the newer SATA2 drives and Asus MB and I am almost always first to start in BF2, which gets me the planes or Choppers fast.
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post #23 of 41
8/12/06 at 4:03pm
I think I've posted this link 5 times.

http://barefeats.com/hard61.html

Well, make that six now . . .
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post #24 of 41
8/12/06 at 5:00pm
ok so are the 200gig 4200rpm drives that you can get with the e1705 faster than the 100gig 7200rpm drives?
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post #25 of 41
8/12/06 at 6:17pm
no a 4200 - 7200 you may notice a slight fster transfer but laptop drives are dift then desktops . notebook drives are made so you will never notice the difference, except price
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post #26 of 41
8/12/06 at 6:38pm
Maybe you can't...but I can tell the difference.
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post #27 of 41
8/12/06 at 6:39pm
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Originally Posted by longlive Boo
no a 4200 - 7200 you may notice a slight fster transfer but laptop drives are dift then desktops . notebook drives are made so you will never notice the difference, except price

Riiiiight....
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post #28 of 41
8/12/06 at 6:45pm
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Originally Posted by longlive Boo
no a 4200 - 7200 you may notice a slight fster transfer but laptop drives are dift then desktops . notebook drives are made so you will never notice the difference, except price

I'd be interested in knowing on what "information" that comment is based.
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post #29 of 41
8/12/06 at 6:47pm
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Originally Posted by bmwrob
I'd be interested in knowing on what "information" that comment is based.

That is his EXPERT opinion!
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post #30 of 41
8/12/06 at 6:48pm
^^

lol
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post #31 of 41
8/13/06 at 2:15pm
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Originally Posted by longlive Boo
no a 4200 - 7200 you may notice a slight fster transfer but laptop drives are dift then desktops . notebook drives are made so you will never notice the difference, except price


Well interesting statement considering I have tested 5400 Vs 7200 Drives in my Laptop and the overall difference was a 25% increase.

So yeah you will notice the difference booting up, and loading apps, and playing games like BF2
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post #32 of 41
8/13/06 at 3:18pm
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Originally Posted by bmwrob
I'd be interested in knowing on what "information" that comment is based.

Link?
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post #33 of 41
8/14/06 at 11:29am
Absolutely you will be fine with 5400RPMs.

I would not go with anything less than 5400 though no matter the size. It is on par with desktops. Old drives used to be 4200 and less and then you would notice a difference in performance. Slow as a dog =)

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Originally Posted by longlive Boo
no a 4200 - 7200 you may notice a slight fster transfer but laptop drives are dift then desktops . notebook drives are made so you will never notice the difference, except price

This is the oddest thing I have ever heard?? exactly how are they made??
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post #34 of 41
8/14/06 at 4:54pm
its not so much the 5400 compared to the 7200 its that the 5400 has only 2 megs of cache were the 7200 has 8 that is were the speed comes in to play
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post #35 of 41
8/14/06 at 5:01pm
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Do you mean in the one that comes with the inspiron or in general? Because the 5400 ones found here have 8MB cache. http://www.drivesolutions.com/cgi-bi...id&itemid=dll4

I just really hope the one I get has 8MB.
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post #36 of 41
8/14/06 at 6:21pm
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Originally Posted by dave-p
Well interesting statement considering I have tested 5400 Vs 7200 Drives in my Laptop and the overall difference was a 25% increase.

So yeah you will notice the difference booting up, and loading apps, and playing games like BF2

here comes the clue canoe! ok so you say that despite the fact that the 2 drives have the same amount of platters (afaik) so the data is packed TWICE as good the fact that the 7200rpm drive which is not double the rpm of the 4200 will be at least 25% faster eh. WRONG. there is a reason why perpendicular drives are expensive.
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post #37 of 41
8/14/06 at 6:34pm
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Originally Posted by silicon???
here comes the clue canoe! ok so you say that despite the fact that the 2 drives have the same amount of platters (afaik) so the data is packed TWICE as good the fact that the 7200rpm drive which is not double the rpm of the 4200 will be at least 25% faster eh. WRONG. there is a reason why perpendicular drives are expensive.

sorry to punch holes in your canoe but your skirting the fact that the 7200 have 8 meg cache so for most things other then basic copying files the
7200's cache is going to make it much faster and responsive in the os
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post #38 of 41
8/15/06 at 1:58pm
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Originally Posted by warscout2
sorry to punch holes in your canoe but your skirting the fact that the 7200 have 8 meg cache so for most things other then basic copying files the
7200's cache is going to make it much faster and responsive in the os

well my canoe is fixed because after a long and arduous 30 seconds of searching i found this link from fujitsu http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/c...00bt-sata.html
they claim that their 200 gig drive HAS an 8 meg cache.
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post #39 of 41
8/15/06 at 2:57pm
that makes my point who on this forum has the 200 gig drive ?

"i9300|XP Pro|P-M 730|wuxga truelife|2 gigs mushkin dual chanel|80gig 7200rpm||geforce go 6800 364/775|intel pro wireless 2200 b/g|cd-rw/dvd rom"

not you
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post #40 of 41
8/15/06 at 3:06pm
Well my Canoe is just fine.

The results I have were done with real life testing of both drives in the same laptop configured with the same OS and Benchmark Tools and Games.

Bottom line the 7200 RPM drive performed 25 % faster overall.

But that's not to say different drive manufacteres, and even series of Hard drives all will bench out differently, and we all know that cache Size has a direct impact on performance, so does the rotational speed of the platters and platter density.

So yes everything matters, and has an impact on performance, to say otherwise is an uninformed opinion.
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