[P1] Drive Replacement - 4200rpm vs 5400rpm

Richard Clark mawgadog at tin.it
Fri Feb 13 12:59:34 PST 2004


On 13 Feb 2004, at 15:51, Alric J. Lam wrote:

> I'm not sure what will fit into the ibooks and powerbooks, but I know 
> for sure
> that a 7200 RPM drive in my Fujitsu notebook ran considerably faster 
> than the
> 4200RPM, with a negligble power loss.  And even if there was a little 
> power
> loss, the 7200 RPM drive is absolutely amazing and well worth it.  The 
> one I
> have is the Hitachi 7K60 or something like that.
>

Thats the one i was looking at was just worried about a huge diff in 
power consumption.

Thanks
Richard



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