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WD Raptor (10k RPM) vs. Notebook drives

post #1 of 6
4/17/09 at 8:46pm
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Hi I currently have a 74gig raptor in my desktop, and I'm going to switch to a notebook for college.

I was wondering how the 7200rpm drives on the m1330 and m1530 compare to this.

I really don't want to notice a slowdown. In order to not be slower should I just sack up and upgrade to the 128gb SSD for $200?
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post #2 of 6
4/18/09 at 5:24am
I really overlook hard drive speed in most cases. You should look for some hdtach or hdtune benchmarks of the hard drive you're considering getting and comparing it to your current hard drives.
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post #3 of 6
4/19/09 at 8:37pm
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Originally Posted by jcll2002 View Post

I was wondering how the 7200rpm drives on the m1330 and m1530 compare to this.
They don't from what I've seen.

If your going to buy an SSD,I urge you to research well,they are all not created equally and the fast one's are still very expensive,while some of the cheaper one's have questionable benefit's over HD's.
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post #4 of 6
4/19/09 at 10:23pm
Notebook drives are in a whole different league to desktop ones. Even 7200rpm desktop drives are routinely faster than equivalent notebook drives, due to platter size alone. Notebooks generally are slower at IO as well, whether it be because of bus speeds, or chipsets. A good SSD might be as quick as a raptor, but I doubt that a cheap $200 128GB one would be (but correct me if I'm wrong). If you really need the speed, research and get a good SSD of your own... just be prepared to pay for it.

my .02
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post #5 of 6
4/20/09 at 2:23am
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yeah i decided just to get a vertex and not worry about it.
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post #6 of 6
4/21/09 at 2:26am
I studied SSDs quite intensively. The Anandtech SSD Anthology article seemed objective enough to give an OCZ Vertex a try.....and Newegg had them on sale. Ended up getting a 30GB Vertex for my M1330 and it is simply amazing.

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As you can see from the results of this Reboot timer script from Sevenforums.com the combination of Windows 7 (x64 build 7068 in this case) and a Vertex is simply amazing! Adobe Photoshop from click to ready to edit in less than 3 seconds.

Not having quite as good luck with another Vertex in a Dell Mini 10, though.
Tom
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