The 7200 will give you a bit of a performance boost, as far as saving/retrieving/opening files. Tradeoff is a bit shorter battery life since the drive has to spin up longer than a 5400.
Jim On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 14:32 -0500, JMJ wrote: > Paul Boniol wrote: > > > Long term, other than having more to lug and keep up with I agree another > > laptop would be your best option given that the company laptop is a lease. > > Agreed, "new laptop" is going to be the long term plan. > > > AFAIK Mandriva Flash is > > only available from Mandriva, unless you can find someone willing to sell > > theirs. > > I found instructions on how to accomplish basically the same thing with > a Mandriva derivative: > http://www.pendrivelinux.com/make-your-own-portable-mandriva-flash/ > > I might try that, but for now, I'm going to try to copy my current > install to a new drive and use that. > > > Any thoughts on Western Digital vs. Seagate 500GB hard SATA drives? I > found these at Best Buy: > Seagate 500GB 7200rpm $139.99 > 500GB 5400rpm $119.99 > WD 500GB 5400rpm $ 99.99 > > Would the 7200rpm be worth an extra $20? ...an extra $40?? > > Thanks again for all your thoughts and suggestions! > > JMJ > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
