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4200rpm hard drive or 7200rpm

post #1 of 16
9/16/04 at 1:27am
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hmm.. i wonder is having a slower hard drive than 7200rpm, like 4200rpm on my XPS gunna affect my game play if i run a high graphical game..... with only 512mb RAM.... ??
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post #2 of 16
9/16/04 at 1:32am
It won't affect gameplay (but perhaps loading times off the HD), but it will affect normal windows use and heavy Disk I/O usage quite significantly. It is worth the extra expense to get the 7200rpm drive.
stu
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post #3 of 16
9/16/04 at 1:42am
get the 7200 I wish i had
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post #4 of 16
9/16/04 at 2:51am
On the other hand, HD is one of the simplest upgrade, so if you choosing between MR9800 and HD7200, for example, and think about upgrade in the future, then you'd better get MR9800 and HD4200 now and upgrade HD later (with the time HD will be bigger, faster and chipper and still compatible with a notebook, but MR9800 is the last video upgrade for 9100/xps, so grab it now and don't pay twice for video). But if it's not about compromise, then 7200 is way to go.
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post #5 of 16
9/16/04 at 4:53am
I got the 100gb 4200rpm as I really need the space and as VRT says it can be upgraded later when larger or faster drives appear.
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post #6 of 16
9/16/04 at 8:15am
I have just taken out my 60Gb 4200RPM and replaced it with the Hitachi 7200RPM model...World of difference, the machine is flying under normal 'office' use...Installing applications is also much faster....

Just got a simple USB2.0 enclosure from e-bay, put the old hard-disk in there and voila, I even have portable storage....

Whole operation took less than 15 minutes...But installing all the software again took a few hours...However it was worth it....

We are talking about peanuts (money wise) here...so just do it...It would be false economy...
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post #7 of 16
9/16/04 at 10:12am
dejongj - What type of enclosure did your get for your other notebook HD? I have the 100 GB 4200 drive in there now and would not mind buying the 60 GB 72k drive if I could still utilize the 100GB drive in an extrenal source... Do not want to stick the 100 GB drive in place of the DVD Drive becuase I use that way too much... Let me know thanks..
Jed

Also, does anyone know how close other makers of HDs are to getting a 100GB 72K drive? Heard something about this in other posts...
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post #8 of 16
9/16/04 at 1:04pm
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Originally Posted by jresurf
dejongj - What type of enclosure did your get for your other notebook HD? I have the 100 GB 4200 drive in there now and would not mind buying the 60 GB 72k drive if I could still utilize the 100GB drive in an extrenal source... Do not want to stick the 100 GB drive in place of the DVD Drive becuase I use that way too much... Let me know thanks..
Jed

Also, does anyone know how close other makers of HDs are to getting a 100GB 72K drive? Heard something about this in other posts...
seagate will be releasing its 7200 rpm 100 gig hdd this fall..
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post #9 of 16
9/16/04 at 1:41pm
Awesome!!! If/when that does happen I will be all over it, as I am sure the rest of the notebook oweners will as well... Any idea whether this HD will be compatable with our IXPS/I9100 notebooks?
Thanks,
Jed
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post #10 of 16
9/16/04 at 2:51pm
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Originally Posted by wazzup
seagate will be releasing its 7200 rpm 100 gig hdd this fall..
/shiver

I hate seagate, have had a lot of bad experience in the past with them

Personally I like the smaller drive. I only keep the necessary files on it to run everything. I use an external hdd for storage. Music and such, and if I won't have room for the external, because of being on a plane or such, I just temporarily load whatever I need onto the laptop. It keeps things running faster since I don't have the driver partitioned. It's usually a good idea to partition in a storage sector if you are using your drive as storage as well as your os/program drive. It can sometimes speed things up noticably.


-Myhre
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post #11 of 16
9/16/04 at 4:04pm
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Originally Posted by bballdunk
hmm.. i wonder is having a slower hard drive than 7200rpm, like 4200rpm on my XPS gunna affect my game play if i run a high graphical game..... with only 512mb RAM.... ??
yes, get a 7200 RPM
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post #12 of 16
9/16/04 at 4:53pm
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Originally Posted by Myhre
/shiver
Personally I like the smaller drive. I only keep the necessary files on it to run everything. I use an external hdd for storage. Music and such, and if I won't have room for the external, because of being on a plane or such, I just temporarily load whatever I need onto the laptop. It keeps things running faster since I don't have the driver partitioned. It's usually a good idea to partition in a storage sector if you are using your drive as storage as well as your os/program drive. It can sometimes speed things up noticably.
-Myhre
Here's even better idea. Instead (or in addition to) external storage get good fast desktop - for games and storage.

O, yehaaa, this is a notebook forum... Sorry.
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post #13 of 16
9/16/04 at 10:41pm

hey look!

You guys, you give the dude wrong info.
1st) The drive options are 5400, not 4200, and the 7200.
2nd) The 7200 is only available in 60GB size.
3rd) The 5400 is good but don't get the Hitachi, ask for IBM or other vendor.

Goto Hitachi's site and you will see they don't make a 4200 for Dell Lappys. OK?

Can't wait for 'THE MATRIX REENTERED'.
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post #14 of 16
9/17/04 at 3:57am
WTF are you smoking chief? Dell only offers 4200rpm drives and the 60gig 7200 drive. And there are other 2.5" hard drive manufacturers if you weren't aware.
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post #15 of 16
9/17/04 at 11:52am
Drives dell puts in their lappies:
60 GB - 5400 rpm
60 GB - 7200 rpm
80 GB - 5400 rpm
100 GB - 4200 rpm

TRUST me on this, the amount of threads and research I did on this are CRAZY... Their website lists 4200RPM for all drives other than the 60GB 7200rpm drive, but unfortunatley that is not accurate.

http://notebookforums.com/showthread...hlight=7200RPM
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post #16 of 16
9/17/04 at 4:27pm
So... Dell put different HD makes/models in their laptops? I have a Fujitsu internal 60gb HD and a 40gb HD for the modular bay. They are 5400rpm MT20AH series models.

Well... according to this they are:

http://www.fujitsu.com/services/comp...x-catalog.html
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