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7200 60GB vs 5400 60GB

post #1 of 12
5/14/05 at 4:17pm
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Is the increase of speed of the 7200 worth the money over the 5400? Mostly talking about boot up time. I dont understand benchmarks so could someone explain thebenchmark results to me?
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post #2 of 12
5/14/05 at 4:33pm
Yes. Look at this way. The faster the HD is able to retrieve the data, the less time it needs to be active. Thus equal to lower heat and better battery life.
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post #3 of 12
5/14/05 at 4:36pm
That's not necessarily true...the 7200 RPM drive should create equal or even more heat than the 5400 RPM
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post #4 of 12
5/14/05 at 4:53pm
Hmm well, that would depends. If you retrieve your data quick enough you could stop spinning or idle earlier. No?
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post #5 of 12
5/14/05 at 5:24pm
it all equals out to negligble heat and power consumption. A faster drive will make boot times shorter, and decrease the lag between starting up programs as well as loading game levels. It wont give you faster fps.
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post #6 of 12
5/14/05 at 6:53pm
there is minimal differance between the 2 speeds on a drive of this volume. granted the 7200 will be slighly quicker at loading game levels and large files (like movies...if you were to do editing), it will slightly cripple your battery life (~5 minutes/charge)
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post #7 of 12
5/14/05 at 7:56pm
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so overall its not worth the extra 100 and some bucks?
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post #8 of 12
5/14/05 at 11:16pm
i paid for mine because i don't like to wait. i was going for a gamer, not a laggy gamer
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post #9 of 12
5/15/05 at 3:52pm
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my comp guy said to get it too so i added it in my laptop.
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post #10 of 12
5/15/05 at 3:55pm

it is definitely worth it:

although, it caused some overheating issues for me
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post #11 of 12
5/15/05 at 4:27pm
What sort of overheating issues did it cause? I'm thinking of speccing a new laptop with a 7200 drive, but i'm concerned about the noise/heat issues that may occur.
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post #12 of 12
5/15/05 at 9:57pm
If you feel like wasting even more money, you could wait for the 100gig 7200rpm drives to come out. They would set you back a bit, I imagine.
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