>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. >
The consensus on this list was that 5400 disks were a vast improvement (both speed and reliability) over 4200. You're implying that 4200 are still made, and if so, I guess they would have incorporated the *technology* improvements that came with the original 5400s. It's not the speed, it's the technology improvements that came along at the same time. The jury was out on 7200s. Is wear proportional to speed, or to the *square* of speed? Anyway, I don't use 'em. I am thinking of buying a Transcend 8 GB SLC PATA drive for my old 701C. I said I would buy one when the price was $100 (Canadian). It approached that level, then it went out of stock at all retailers, some regard it as a special order item etc etc. It's coming back on board now. Any advice? It would be on a 701C, 75 MHz 486 cpu, 40 MB RAM, running Windows 95a. OK, it's not going to be a speed demon, but it is going to be as close as I can get to silent computing. The 701C doesn't have a fan, so no chance of that kind of noise! And it's kind of a nice fit, because the 701C can't address more than 8.1 GB hard drive without using disk management software. Did Win95 have any of the issues of writing crap to disk too often? I notice in Win 7 that the disk access light comes on every couple of seconds, whether the computer is running apps or not. -- happy Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
