On Apr 06 2005, at 17:27, Stephen Jonke wrote:
The question is, are the benefits of the higher RPM actually substantial for notebook drives? In my case, I would say no. My original 4200 RPM drive seemed to have quite similar performance to this new 5400 RPM drive. As you noted, though, YMMV. Maybe the Seagate 5400 RPM drive is relatively slow compared to others. I don't know.
I feel the benefits are pretty substantial. While my overall transfer rate hasn't taken that much of a hike (about 150% or so? may partly be attributed to the larger cache), everything just feels so much snappier. I put this down to the decreased seek times - anything which requires lots of random read/write all over the disk seems to be degrees faster.
Your Seagate ought to be pretty quick. As a 100Gb drive, it has higher platter density, thus the heads have to travel less physical distance per seek => lower seek times. I've had very good experiences with all the Seagate drives I've owned, except that piece of rubbish they put in the Xbox; I had mine replaced four (!) times due to HD failure before I modded the damn thing and replaced the stock drive with my old iBook one :)
I feel older hardware has more to gain from fast disks than the latest & greatest.
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