[Ti] faster int. hd question

[Leander Hutton]

I've been looking at putting an 80 GB drive in my Ti/867.  I have ! GB of
RAM already so it runs pretty fast, I was looking at the considerable price
differences between the 4200 RPM and 5400 RPM and I was wondering how much
of a boost a 5400 is over a 4200.  I mean it's a rather large price
difference ... I do a little Photoshop and some but it's not that slow, and
it boots pretty fast in 10.3.3.  Any input?

Leander



On 4/21/04 1:06 PM, "John" <simplymail at ururk.com> wrote:

>> Has anyone on the list installed the 60GB 7200RPM internal hd
>> (IBM/Hitachi Travelstar) in their powerbook?  I'm wondering if it
>> speeds things up in any noticeable way.
>> Or, if you have lots of RAM, maybe the faster-spinning drive doesn't
>> make much of a difference?
>> Any advice from someone who's tried the new drive, or knows about
>> these things, would be appreciated.
> 
> I went this route.
> 
> I can't say, after less than a year of use, that it sped anything up.
> If I remember correctly, Photoshop times (opening, saving) improved
> with huge files, (it still takes time). When I first installed it I
> felt a decent speed increase, but one gets used to a "faster" mac, and
> then the new faster feels slow.
> 
> One thing that I don't know, is how to spin the darn thing down! When I
> leave my PB alone for a little while, the HD doesn't spin down - even
> with my energy save prefs correctly set up! Either Panther never sleeps
> the drive, or the drive needs some sort of utility to enable this.
> 
> Check out xlr8yourmac.com to read the reviews of this drive, in various
> PB configs.
> 
> I also have 768 MB of RAM, so that helps a little as well.
> 
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