[LIB] New 7200 rpm, 100GB 2.5 HD benchmarks test article

2005-11-15 Thread David Chien 
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:14:18 -0800 (PST)
From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: New 7200 rpm, 100GB 2.5 HD benchmarks  test article

http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/2005/index.html

Looks like the new Hitachi 100GB 7200rpm HD is the fastest HD available yet for
the Libretto.  An excellent upgrade choice for users who want both speed and
storage space!

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Re: [LIB] New 7200 rpm, 100GB 2.5 HD benchmarks test article

2005-11-15 Thread jmartin 
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:20:49 -0600 (CST)
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Subject: Re: [LIB] New 7200 rpm, 100GB 2.5 HD benchmarks  test article

I would love to have the speed/performance of a 7200rpm HDD.  :)

I recently bought a new Toshiba 100GB, 16MB Buffer, 5400rpm (MK1032GAX) drive 
on eBay for 140.50 (with shipping).  A 7200rpm drive would be great but a lot 
more money so I went with this one.
How much impact would a 7200 have on something like Video Playback... things 
like Mpegs.  Would it smooth them out any or is that more of a processing 
power issue than drive response?

John Martin


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Re: [LIB] New 7200 rpm, 100GB 2.5 HD benchmarks test article

2005-11-15 Thread Raymond 

Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:37:04 +1100
From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [LIB] New 7200 rpm, 100GB 2.5 HD benchmarks  test article

I recon it's almost certainly a processor issue ... even with a 4800rpm (I 
think - the bog standard version as of 2-3 years ago) 20GB Samsung, I was 
able to dump uncompressed digital video from a firewire Panasonic DV 
camcorder through a firewire PCMCIA card at full speed to my Libretto 100 
without dropping frames (this involves no CPU processing of the stream - it 
goes straight to disk) - well OK, it only dropped frames when I hit 
fragmentation boundaries (but it was fine after I defragg'd).


For watching movies, I found compressing in MPEG 1 with a lower bitrate 
(from memory I think it was 1500kbps) and a low resolution (320x240) seemed 
to do the trick for me ... but YMMV.


Again for some reason, for me Win2k seemed smoother than Win98 for playback 
(I was using Media Player Classic at the time - WiMP just chugged).


- Raymond

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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:20:49 -0600 (CST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [LIB] New 7200 rpm, 100GB 2.5 HD benchmarks  test article
I would love to have the speed/performance of a 7200rpm HDD.  :)

I recently bought a new Toshiba 100GB, 16MB Buffer, 5400rpm (MK1032GAX) drive
on eBay for 140.50 (with shipping).  A 7200rpm drive would be great but a lot
more money so I went with this one.
How much impact would a 7200 have on something like Video Playback... things
like Mpegs.  Would it smooth them out any or is that more of a processing
power issue than drive response?
John Martin

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