: 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.
