Re: [Thinkpad] Re: seagate momentus 100 gb and 120hard drives

From: David Ross <ross_at_math.hawaii.edu>
Date: Thu Jul 14 2005 - 16:20:32 EDT

> This brings up another question: is there much of a performance lag
between
> the 5400 rpm and the 7200? I currently have the 60 GB 7200 rpm in my
> Thinkpad T41P and wouldn't want to degrade the performance much if I
can
> help it.

When we bought a drive recently people on Bill Morrow's forum thought
that the newest-generation Hitachi 5400rpm drives (like the E5K100) were
just about as fast as their 7200rpm drives. this was confirmed by the
benchmarks here: http://hi-techreviews.com/nuke/hitachi3/page1.htm

- David R.

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