Question:
7200 RPM Hitachi 60gb in 4501WLMi?
Hi all,
is there any major reason I cant upgrade the rather pokey 4200rpm stock drive with a nice 7200rpm Hitachi?
Besides my battery not lasting as long? :)
will battery life be radically reduced?
should I worry about too much heat?
thanks
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I haven't noticed too much of a difference. Battery life seems to lose maybe 10-20 minutes.
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thanks,
did you notice a performance increase upgrading to the 7200?
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For sure, start up time is much quicker, maybe about 10 seconds. When loading games like Half Life 2, or loading benchmarks, they are much more quicker. Defragging the hard drive takes much less time now too.
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Great, I have been loving HL2 on the 4500WLMi so far, but the start up times are looong...good news, my Hitachi is on its way now.
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Thats cool, the one I got is model HTS726060M9AT00 60 GB. Even though its 60 GB it only allows a max, well for me anyways, of 55.8 GB.
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Thats because HD Manufacturers count 1Kb as 1000Bytes (10^3), while for Windows, 1Kb is 1024Bytes (2^10). For HD Manufacturers also 1Gb are 1000Mbytes, 1024 again for Windows. The capacity is the same, counted in different ways.
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I got a Hitachi 60GB 7200RPM HDD to replace the original 4200RPM 40GB HDD, I found a huge boost in efficiency when cut-and-paste large files, it's helpful especially with video editing.[^]