New laptop hard drive

[brain29]

I am going to have some extra money and I want to upgrade my laptop. The harddrive is a measly 80 gb @ 4200 rpm. It is the bottleneck of the system. My question is would it be more beneficial to get say a 100gb @ 5400 or something like 80gb @ 7200. I would like as much size as possible, but im not sure if just going to 5400 rpm is going to make the kind of difference I am looking for.

 

[NuroMancer]

Originally posted by: brain29
I am going to have some extra money and I want to upgrade my laptop. The harddrive is a measly 80 gb @ 4200 rpm. It is the bottleneck of the system. My question is would it be more beneficial to get say a 100gb @ 5400 or something like 80gb @ 7200. I would like as much size as possible, but im not sure if just going to 5400 rpm is going to make the kind of difference I am looking for.

Don't forget cache levels....

I saw a 120 gig 5400.2 8 meg cache somewhere for 339 if ur interested.

It will help alot to go up in HDD speed but don't skimp and get a 2 meg cache.

 

[suicidalpigeon]

i upped my hd from 4200 to 5400 and notice a considerable amount of performance increase, i assume the same thing will happen if i bump agian to 7200. but that's just me.

 

[ValuedCustomer]

Originally posted by: brain29
I am going to have some extra money and I want to upgrade my laptop. The harddrive is a measly 80 gb @ 4200 rpm. It is the bottleneck of the system. My question is would it be more beneficial to get say a 100gb @ 5400 or something like 80gb @ 7200. I would like as much size as possible, but im not sure if just going to 5400 rpm is going to make the kind of difference I am looking for.

You can make a case for either one I suppose. - If it were me I'd go w/ the 80/7200. Going from 4300 to 7200's gonna yield some impressive results to say the least