I'll provide a dissenting opinion on this. Whether or not 5400 rpm
makes a difference may depend on the drive, or it might just be a
figure of peoples imagination - I installed a 100 GB 5400 RPM Seagate
Momentus drive in my Powerbook G4 1.5 GHz. I presume there is a
measurable performance improvement over the original 80 GB 4200 RPM
drive, but it sure is minimal. I didn't do benchmarks. Day to day it
doesn't seem any faster than before, even things you'd think would be
faster such as starting applications. Of course the extra 20 GB is
nice, but the performance improvement, which I presume is there, is not
noticeable. Maybe 7200 RPM makes more of a difference - I don't know.
If it's between 4200 RPM and 5400 RPM, I think I'd pay less and get the
4200.
Steve
On Apr 5, 2005, at 8:19 PM, Robert Gruber wrote:
OWC has two 60G HDs with about a $30 difference in price; does anyone
think it's worth the premium?
Free Radical running 10.3.8 and 9.2.1 on Powerbook G4 @ 400 MHz.
P.S. Is the LEM Swap list open yet?
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