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7,200 RPM laptop hard drive ?

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While sitting in the waiting room of my son's doctors office yesterday I happened to pick up the Sept,2003 issue of PC Magazine, browsing thorugh it I came across a add for a laptop that had a 7,200 RPM hard in it, they gave the specs for everything but the hard drive, it gave a web address of www.voodoo3.com.

I tried that site but it keeps timing out on me, does anyone know if anyone makes such a hard drive for lappy's ?
 
They could, however I'm reminded of an article that stated 7,200 RPM's is not the real reason that makes the hard drive faster . It's used as a specification amongst other things upgraded on the hard drive. storagereview.com I think.
 
HITACHI NOTEBOOK HARD DRIVE 60GB 7200RPM PART# 08K0939 - OEM, DRIVE ONLY
Specifications:
Form: 2.5 Inch 9.5mm Height
Size: 60 Gigabytes
Interface: IDE ULTRA ATA-6
Seek time: 12.0ms
RPM:7200
Cache 8MB
OEM(Drive alone) 3 Year Manufacturer Warranty: HTS726060M9AT00 Model#: HTS726060M9AT00


$299 at newegg.com
 
Originally posted by: Regs
They could, however I'm reminded of an article that stated 7,200 RPM's is not the real reason that makes the hard drive faster . It's used as a specification amongst other things upgraded on the hard drive. storagereview.com I think.
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Rotational delay is one of the components that defines the speed of a drive. Every time one seeks to a new block one must wait for the platter to rotate the sector under the head. On a 7,200 RPM disk the disk spins around once every (60s/min) * (min/7200) = 8.3ms, thus the average rotational delay is 4.2ms. For a 5,400 RPM disk the average rotational delay is 5.6ms. For a 10,000 RPM disk the average rotational delay is 3ms.

This is not an insignificant amount of time but the seek time (the time to move the arm to the correct cylinder) is generally a more significant number. For example the drive listed above has a 12ms average seek time (vs. the 4.2ms average rotational delay).
 
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HARD DRIVE 60GB 7200RPM
Size: 60 Gigabytes
RPM:7200
Cache 8MB
OEM(Drive alone) 3 Year Manufacturer Warranty:

$299 at newegg.com
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ouch, man you really get raped when you buy a laptop.

i could get an internal IDE for $50 with the same specs.

I didnt realize the difference until a few months ago when my roomate asked for help with an upgrade. I was like 30 gigs, no problem should be at most $30, boy did i look like an ass when I pulled up new egg and they were selling 20G @ 4200 2mg for over $100!
 
Raped on a laptop? Other than it not being upgradeable, it wasn't a bad deal for me. I got a Toshiba with a 2.2 GHz celeron, built in wireless (not even an antenna to break off), 40 gig HD, 32 meg shared intel video, 512 megs of ram, XP home edition, dvd/ cdrw combo, ~17" equivalent lcd screen for ~$850 after rebates. Yeah, the HD's you may get raped on, but you can always use a usb2 HD kit, and for a laptop... do you really need 40 gigs? I'm using a wireless router at home and have wireless access to my other PC and internet. My other pc has 360 gigs available. 40 gigs can give you Streets and Trips, Office XP, Quake 3/ Counterstrike, and a slew of other things. The only reason I could see updating the laptop anytime soon would be for lan party gaming. If you have a desktop, you really don't need an humungous HDD.
 
Received my Hitachi on Tues.
ordered it from googlegear(now zipadeedoodah something or other)
Very fast drive runs nice and cool and quiet
$276 shipped
Now it's gone down to $270
 
Your title states 72,000rpm. For a laptop that's pretty fast, where can I get one? I bet It could beat two 74GB RAID-0 Raptors. 😛

-Por
 
If you use any power saving options the 7200RPM drive will kill performance because of the long spin-up time from stopped. This is the reason laptop drives have been stuck at 4500 and 5400 RPM for so long. If you set the options so the drive never spins down it will be pretty snappy but the battery goes dead. If you set the power options for drive spin-down, performance goes in the tank but the battery lasts. You pays your money and makes your choice.
 
Haven't changed any power options and can't tell any difference in the battery performance.
and the drive is very zippy
 
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