5400rpm vs 7200rpm?
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Geesh who do you buy your hardware from. You're getting hosed if your spending that much more on a hard drive just to move to a 7200rpm spindle speed.
Get your hardware online than from who you're pricing they are ripping you off.
Yes, in general, you want the faster hard drive. It does make a difference especially in gaming.
theres about a 33 percent difference in speed, theoretically at least. if your gonna be gaming, the extra fifty is definately worth it.
There will be a difference, worth $50 to me, but depends on what kind of games you play. If your getting a high to med-high end gaming system I would do it for sure.
The disk is the slooowest piece of the memory system of your PC. Boosting the slowest bit by about 30% for $50 has got to be a bargain.
Does the drive speed really help with gaming? Most applications, be they games or word processors run out of RAM. The two primary reasons that the disk is accessed is to read/write data files (i.e. save/load your current position in a game) or for swap file space (because you don't have enough memory).
For game speed - invest in lots of RAM (2Gb plus) and a video adapter with lots of memory.
Having 7200rps drive doesn't hurt, but if your watching your pennies I'd invest in RAM before the rps of the HD.
The difference between the two is the speed at which the hard drive spins. A faster speed (7200 RPM) is only good if you need to access data faster. Going by the fact that you are getting that laptop (not a high end gaming machine) the extra RPM isnt really worth the money. You will not need to access data on the hard drive that much faster so save your money.
7200 RPM only makes sense with SATA drives. Even the 100 mHz UDMA hard drives couldn't send data across the bus fast enough to justify 7200 RPMs, but SATA can take full advantage of the increased speed.
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