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Laptop hard drive... 5400 or 7200 ?

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Carol Haynes:
Depends where you live - Provantage have good prices but if you live anywhere other than continental US their shipping prices are ridiculous (and will probably cost more than the drive).

J-Mac:
5400.  On the notebook you will NOT notice the difference, except for the price. Not worth the cost, in money and battery duration.

Jim

vegas:
5400.  On the notebook you will NOT notice the difference, except for the price. Not worth the cost, in money and battery duration.

Jim
-J-Mac (December 28, 2007, 02:43 AM)
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When I got my notebook with a 5400 hard drive, I reformatted and reinstalled drivers & software to my liking.  But I still wasn't satisfied with the performance, so I ordered one of the newer 7200 Seagate notebook drives and I can say there is a night & day difference (for me).

Armando:
Thanks for the extra feedback. I haven't actually bought the thing yet.

@J-Mac : I actually suspect that I'll see a difference with the new Seagate. I've read that because of perpendicular recording  newer 5400rpm hard drives were almost as fast as older 7200rpm hard drives, but now the "newer" 7200 generation does really make a difference.

All I can say is that the bottleneck in my current laptop configuration really seems to be the hard drive speed... and the USB port. So I'm expecting to see faster indexing performances (X1, Archivarius -- by the way, guys, there's a new version... --, locate32), faster backup, faster resuming from hibernation, faster saves for huge documents (25 mb +), faster searches (FARR, and any other "real time" searches), etc. But I'll see... I'll keep you posted.


@Stephen47 : The price is not bad at all, and with Canadian currency being super high... it amounts to a grand total of 177.025 Canadian Dollar with shipping (shipping is the killer : 30 $). Still not bad though. I can have $179.00 for it nearby, but that doesn't include taxes. Whe I order stuff, the tax thing seems a bit aleatory : I never know when they're going to charge something. With eBay they usually don't.

And I wonder if ordering a hard drive is risky business... Fragilitywise.

Darwin : do you often order (fragile) stuff through stores like that in the US? And what about taxes ?

Darwin:
I've ordered four harddrives over the years (if memory serves - might be more) through the post and have never had a problem. Regarding taxes, though WATCH Canada Border Services Agency!!!!! They'll slap a $5 inspection fee onto your package and then PST and GST and possibly duty as well. I got my Donationcoder mug in the post and had to pay $18.16 in taxes and inspection fees to be able to take possession (NB it shipped with an invoice indicating the price as $99.99). The problem is that they are entirely random about whether or not they inspect a package. Just be prepared...

It'd be tempting though... as TigerDirect.ca has the same drive for $195 CDN. before taxes and shipping  :o FWIW, if it was me and I could get it in person for $179 + taxes, I'd take that route...

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