How big a benefit is it to swap the original 4200rpm 40GB
drive for a 5400 rpm ? What about a 7200rpm drive ???
Losing a few GB isn't crucial if it makes a big difference...
Larry
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Switching from a 5400rpm drive to a 7200rpm made a (relatively) huge
difference in speed to my iMac. If you can afford a 7200rpm laptop
drive (if possible with an 8MB or larger cache), go for it. Otherwise,
just getting the largest (capacity) hard drive you can find will make
things better, as
From: Ben Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Otherwise, just getting the largest (capacity) hard drive you can find will
make things better, as OS X won't be as likely to run out of space and
start fragmenting all your files.
Ok, I buy that, but if we're talking about a smaller drive, in this
case a 40GB
I upgraded the 4200rpm 40GB drive in my rev B 12 to an 80GB 5400 rpm
TravelStar and would peg the speed boost at roughly 20% in disk-intensive
activities, like opening files and launching applications. Overall
performance isn't that different, probably because with 768MB of ram I don't
hit the HD
