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Can you tell the difference between a 7200 hd and a 5400 rpm hd?

Yea, quite noticable. Especially if ur upgrading an old 5400rpm drive to a current 7200rpm drive.
 
YES

Your OS HD would perform alot better if it was a 7200rpm/2meg buffer HD vs. a 5400 rpm HD. While some 5400 rpm HD's perform almost as good as some 7200 ones, there is still a difference.
 
Yes. After upgrading from a 5400 rpm Maxtor HD to a 7200 Samsung SpinPoint HD, things went a lot faster. It was almost as noticable as upgrading the RAM from 64 to 128 MB.
 
Yes, ................ especially the boot-up time seems to be reduced ........!!!
Every hdd "On-Sale" deal that I read, ... the first thing I look for is the 7200-RPM rating!

I installed a new 7200 WD + an ATA100-Ultra controller card on my Aunts old SS7 system and the difference in boot time was worth every cent of the up-grade ........
 
depedns what u're upgrading from...
if u're upgrading from a modern relatively high-density platter 5400rpm hdd to the same but 7200rm hdd, u probably won't notice much if anything.

i upgraded from an 8.4 5400 maxtor to a 20.4 fujitsu 7200 and the performance increase was substantial...pant-creaming.
 
Yep I can feel the difference 🙂 When loading big stuff liek Windoze and other stuff it does shave some seconds off, but for the little things its not too noticable, only when big things are opened.

Albert.
 
You'll see a big improvement only if the 5400 RPM drive isn't quite fast enough for the application and thereby requires at least 2 spins for every access. At best, a 7200 RPM drive can be only 1/3 faster than a comparable 5400 RPM drive, and only a benchmark fanatic would consider this to be a big improvement.

7200 RPM drives typically draw about 1 watt more than a 5400 RPM drive, which is enough to make many of them run hot enough to require either vertical mounting or a cooling fan for reliability. 7200 RPM motors are quite a bit harder on their controller chips, which have to pump out 3/4 more power.
 
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