performance increase from upgrading harddrive

Virusyn · Virusyn #1 (**permalink**)

03-31-2007, 02:50 PM

Hi,
I was just wondering what are your guys take on upgrading from 5400 rpm to 7200 prm harddrive. Is it worth the extra money and hassle? do you notice your macbook being faster? is the bootup time better? etc. Thanks for the help.

I currently have a Macbook with 2GB Ram, thanks

Amen-Moses · Amen-Moses #2 (**permalink**)

03-31-2007, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Virusyn

Hi,
I was just wondering what are your guys take on upgrading from 5400 rpm to 7200 prm harddrive. Is it worth the extra money and hassle? do you notice your macbook being faster? is the bootup time better? etc. Thanks for the help.

I currently have a Macbook with 2GB Ram, thanks

Not really noticeable for me, my MacBook 2Gb 100G 7200 HD doesn't boot any faster than my MacBook Pro with 160G 5400 HD.

What does make a huge difference is cache, both the 5400 & 7200 drives have large caches compared to the 4200 drives, when I upgraded my iBook from a 4200 drive to 5400 the difference was amazing, a lot more so than the numbers would suggest.

Amen-Moses

Virusyn · Virusyn #3 (**permalink**)

03-31-2007, 06:55 PM

thanks, ill think it over then, cheers

mac57 · mac57 #4 (**permalink**)

04-01-2007, 02:25 PM

The other thing to note is that the 7200 RPM drive will eat through your battery a little faster. I went through this same debate as I figured out how I wanted to configure the MBP I plan to buy as soon as Leopard comes out, and decided in favor of 5400 for battery longevity issues.

Virusyn · Virusyn #5 (**permalink**)

04-02-2007, 02:18 AM

ya im leaning towards keeping my 5400 rpm at the moment

coach_z · coach_z #6 (**permalink**)

04-02-2007, 02:36 AM

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Originally Posted by mac57

The other thing to note is that the 7200 RPM drive will eat through your battery a little faster.

i concur
-chris

Rambaud · Rambaud #7 (**permalink**)

04-05-2007, 02:55 AM

Just bought a 160Gb 5400 rpm drive in preference to a 7200 rpm one.

mac57 #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 29, 2006 Location: St. Somewhere Posts: 4,547 Mac Specs: PowerMac G5 Quad, 2.5 GHz, 4 Core, 120 GB SSD, 500 GB HDD	04-01-2007, 02:25 PM The other thing to note is that the 7200 RPM drive will eat through your battery a little faster. I went through this same debate as I figured out how I wanted to configure the MBP I plan to buy as soon as Leopard comes out, and decided in favor of 5400 for battery longevity issues. My Macs: PowerMac G5 Quad, 2.5 GHz, 4 Core, Mac Pro, 3.2 GHz 8 Core, Power Macintosh 7500/100 My iStuff: 32 GB iPhone 4, 30 GB iPod Video, 16 GB iPod Touch My OS': Mac OS X Tiger, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Mac OS X Leopard, Mac OS 8.6, openSUSE 10.3, Win XP I was on the Mac-Forums honor roll for September 2007
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Virusyn #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 05, 2006 Posts: 136	03-31-2007, 02:50 PM Hi, I was just wondering what are your guys take on upgrading from 5400 rpm to 7200 prm harddrive. Is it worth the extra money and hassle? do you notice your macbook being faster? is the bootup time better? etc. Thanks for the help. I currently have a Macbook with 2GB Ram, thanks
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Virusyn #5 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 05, 2006 Posts: 136	04-02-2007, 02:18 AM ya im leaning towards keeping my 5400 rpm at the moment
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Rambaud #7 (permalink)
Member Since: Sep 15, 2006 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 236	04-05-2007, 02:55 AM Just bought a 160Gb 5400 rpm drive in preference to a 7200 rpm one.
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