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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 4:49 pm
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Originally Posted by allset2travel
...and a large capacity drive with min 7200 RPM (may be hard to find for laptops).
Keep in mind that the rotational speed of a hard drive is only one of the determinants of throughput - the aggregate data transfer rate is limited by the speed of the interface and seek time. If interface is slower than the drive, kicking it up to 10,000 RPM won't make anything happen faster.

I get a kick out of people bragging about their 7200RPM laptop drives when I know they're running them through an IDE interface designed for 4200 or 5400.
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