On Apr 06 2005, at 14:46, Stephen Jonke wrote:
I'll provide a dissenting opinion on this. Whether or not 5400 rpm makes a difference may depend on the drive, or it might just be a figure of peoples imagination - I installed a 100 GB 5400 RPM Seagate Momentus drive in my Powerbook G4 1.5 GHz. I presume there is a measurable performance improvement over the original 80 GB 4200 RPM drive, but it sure is minimal. I didn't do benchmarks. Day to day it doesn't seem any faster than before, even things you'd think would be faster such as starting applications. Of course the extra 20 GB is nice, but the performance improvement, which I presume is there, is not noticeable. Maybe 7200 RPM makes more of a difference - I don't know. If it's between 4200 RPM and 5400 RPM, I think I'd pay less and get the 4200.
Hmmm. What's $15?
Here's a thing: You have a very new machine with a very fast CPU and graphics chip. I also imagine the hard disk it came with was pretty rapid as well, being all nice and up to date, so your performance gain will be minimal to none. This guy, however, is upgrading an old 400MHz laptop, which will be equipped with a much older disk (thus slower), not to mention a much slower core system: to squeeze the most out of it, I honestly think it really is worth spending the extra buttons.
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