A Question about Laptop Hard Drives

[CRS6785]

I just recently made the purchase on a high end laptop. However, after reading a lot of info on other sites I realised I may have made a somewhat bad decision on what Hard Drive I decided to go with. Anyways, my decision was to go with a 60GB 4200 RPM ATA 100 at the time of purchase. The reason being that I wanted the extra space. Now I'm starting to think that I should have went with the 40GB 5400 RPM ATA 100 instead for the improved RPM. Would the change from 4200 RPM to 5400 RPM make a real noticable difference? I play a lot of games, seeing as how that will most likely be a factor when making the decision, heh

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[Urban_Squrill]

I dont think that it will make that much difference. But thats me.

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[Amgis]

You also have to take into account that higher capacity hard drives are more dense than lower capacity hard drives, even if the RPM is the same. Like a 60GB 5400RPM ATA100 hard drive will be faster than 40GB 5400RPM ATA100 hard drive. A 120GB 4200RPM hard drive will probably be faster than a 30GB 5400RPM.

If gaming is your only concern, then you probably won't see much of a difference there. Maybe games may load faster/slower either way by a few seconds.

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[CRS6785]

Ok, thanks for fast reply guys. Answered what I was looking for

well there's not much difference between 4200 and 5400 as far as hdd goes so I would have went with the bigger drive. Seek time is going to be about the same anyways

[mytfastss]

Do laptop Harddrives Have Buffer's? If so, then it should Be considered as well as RPM...