4200 RPM drive fast enough?

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There is Ebay. It is better to buy seperatly if you know a little
about setting it up.
 
There is Ebay. It is better to buy seperatly if you know a little
about setting it up.
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I picked up my Maxtor SATA133 80gig drive on ebay summer of 03 for 79
bucks plus shipping. Brand new with warranty ans still going strong.
Also got a Seagate Barracuda ATA IV for around 45 bucks (40gig)
You should be able to get a new drive on ebay for a buck a gig or even
cheaper these days.
 
A buck a gig is expensive. Frys has a 200 gig for $70 after rebate.
That figures out to a lot less than a dollar.
 
The shipping and Customs charges is what kills the deal on Ebay.

: There is Ebay. It is better to buy seperatly if you know a little
: about setting it up.
 
Mark said:
: Will it work, yes, but it will be painfully slow. A few of the
reasons they
: use those slow as molasses drives in notebooks is for reduced heat and
power
: consumption. Other than that, the slow drives kill the performance of
the
: notebooks.

I know, I noticed that speed issue right away just booting up, disk
defraging, and copying CD's. Unfortunately, at this time it is not
worthwhile for me to upgrade my new drive in the laptop to a 80 or 100G
5400 rpm drive until the drives are less expensive. That's one reason
why I ordered a WD 200G 7200 rpm drive. In fact, I am only using 8G
right now for apps and data. I can always buy an external case and
house the hard drive and swap a DVD drive as need be, but I can't run
both at the same time unless I have two external USB cases. I dunno how
that will affect the read/write speeds if run simulataneously.

The industry needs to implement better cooling for notebooks. I am going
to buy a laptop cooler to cool down my Dell even more, but nothing is
better than extra internal case fans for the laptops.
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I've been using a 7200 RPM Hitachi HDD in my ThinkPad (1.3 Pentium M &
512 MB RAM) since June - big boost in performance and no cooling
problems. I don't do video on it, however, for that I use my Dim 4550
with a couple of 200GB HDDs.
 
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