Hi The reason for the change in drives is size rather than speed or reliability.
This old 4200RPM 15GB drive has served me for years, and been in about 10 machines. So as far as reliability it has done very well and still doing well. It is a fairly quiet drive for its age. At the end of the day it is a P3 500Mhz with only 196MB RAM, it isnot going to be a speed demon no matter what speed drive I put in, but would it make any difference? I need a reliable drive, but any PATA under 40GB is going to be quite old these days. 15GB drives are positively ancient these days. For the hassle it is going to be installing XP and Mint LXDE on this machine without an optical drive again it has to be worth the hassle. An extra 5GB really isnt worth it. It would need to be 25GB upwards and then you are probably talking 5400RPM at that size. Simon ---------------------------------------- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:10:49 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Faster Hard Drive > > "STeve Andre'" wrote: >>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. > > That's been precisely my experience, too. 7200 also uses more power (issue if > you run on battery a lot), runs hotter, and tend to be less reliable as a > result (of the heat). > >>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. > > Shhhhh...my two 600Es will hear you!!! > > ...phsiii > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
