On Tuesday 10 August 2010 10:51:13 Simon Royal wrote: > Hi > I have an old 15GB 4200RPM drive in my ThinkPad 240x. > I want to put something bigger in it. 15GB just aint big enough for two > OSes. Is there any mileage in getting a faster drive, like a 5400 or > 7200RPM drive? It helped in a Mac I had a year ago. > > Simon Royal
To some extent, yes. It really depends on the OS. Going from 4200 to 7200rpm should be noticeably faster, but I've seen cases where I would have thought things should have been faster, but wern't. The real reason you need to upgrade is the age of that disk. It's *old*. Now, I strongly suspect that disks of old were better built, but that is a geriatric disk, and in my experience they fail without notice. -- STeve Andre' Disease Control Warden Dept. of Political Science Michigan State University A day without Windows is like a day without a nuclear incident. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
