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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1015232"><p>640GB laptop drives are pretty "unproven" at the moment, so if you're looking for reliability I'd stick with 500GB.</p><p></p><p>Doing CAD I really can't see any advantage to using 7200rpm drives at all. The speed difference is likely to be negligible at that size.</p><p></p><p>Finally, a faster drive will chew up your battery for no apparent gain, and adding smcfancontrol (really not necessary btw) will only ADD to that battery drain.</p><p></p><p>As for the 9400M vs. the 310M, the spec sheets from Nvidia indicate that they are essentially the same card.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1015232"] 640GB laptop drives are pretty "unproven" at the moment, so if you're looking for reliability I'd stick with 500GB. Doing CAD I really can't see any advantage to using 7200rpm drives at all. The speed difference is likely to be negligible at that size. Finally, a faster drive will chew up your battery for no apparent gain, and adding smcfancontrol (really not necessary btw) will only ADD to that battery drain. As for the 9400M vs. the 310M, the spec sheets from Nvidia indicate that they are essentially the same card. [/QUOTE]
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