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<blockquote data-quote="mmoy" data-source="post: 99009" data-attributes="member: 9872"><p>In general, default notebook drives run at 4200. You can get 5400 drives as the default on some better notebooks. Some even have the 7200 RPM option but all of these drives tend to be slower than fairly cheap desktop drives.</p><p></p><p>I've seen throughput on a 5400 RPM notebook drive with 8 MB cach in the 430 MB/Sec range with USB 2.0 when I was ghosting an image from one drive to another.</p><p></p><p>I have a few extra notebook drives at 30 and 40 GB and one I use as a build disk for a laptop. Cuts down on the internal heat in the laptop and performance of desktop apps is much better when you're not chewing up the internal drive.</p><p></p><p>External drives could be used to store things on like</p><p>MP3s or images but you have to remember to go looking for them in another place.</p><p></p><p>They can be useful for backup drives too for email, mp3s, images, etc. Or for moving stuff from one computer to another.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mmoy, post: 99009, member: 9872"] In general, default notebook drives run at 4200. You can get 5400 drives as the default on some better notebooks. Some even have the 7200 RPM option but all of these drives tend to be slower than fairly cheap desktop drives. I've seen throughput on a 5400 RPM notebook drive with 8 MB cach in the 430 MB/Sec range with USB 2.0 when I was ghosting an image from one drive to another. I have a few extra notebook drives at 30 and 40 GB and one I use as a build disk for a laptop. Cuts down on the internal heat in the laptop and performance of desktop apps is much better when you're not chewing up the internal drive. External drives could be used to store things on like MP3s or images but you have to remember to go looking for them in another place. They can be useful for backup drives too for email, mp3s, images, etc. Or for moving stuff from one computer to another. [/QUOTE]
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