RPM of this hard drive: Could someone please comment on the RPM of the hard drive?
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My thoughts for WD drives sold in between 2010-2012. Higher end drives (such as "Studio" drives) with faster interfaces like Firewire 800 /USB 3 are likely 7200 RPM, 50MB/sec. Mid-level drives ("My Book") with medium speed Firewire 400 /USB 2 are likely 5400 RPM 30MB/sec. Mobile drives ("Passport" or "Passport Studio") powered by the Firewire or USB come in 5400 or even slower 3200 RPM 20MB/sec or less. I own several variaties of the WD Book, Studio, and Passport drives and I test them using the BlackMagic app for Mac. For me, I use Firewire 800 for the Studio drives (7200), USB 2 for the My Book drives (5400), and USB 2 for the Passport drives. Even though the spec,s performance, and bus speeds vary, it seems to scale accordingly with price. Which gets me to this conclusion, "these drives are a good value, and you generally get what you pay for".
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I'm going to replace my 500MB 7200rpm hard drive. How will this compare in speed? I'm basically at 90-93% full due to photos and music!
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I have no idea but the hard drive has not giving me any problems, and it's a beast of a desktop
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It's 5400RPM, so access times are "slower" than a 7200RPM drive. It has an 8meg cache vs. a 16m cache. I'd venture to say that neither of these are noticeable to the typical user. It's hot-pluggable SATA II, which are current capabilities. The 7200RPM/16m version is only about $5 more.
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Here is the correct configuration: Total Hard Drive Capacity: 1 TB Hard Drive Interface: Serial ATA Hard Drive RPM: 7200
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5400 rpm- a weak point for this laptop. However, since this laptop supports up to two 2.5" drives, I recommend getting a decent solid state drive to use as the primary drive and delegate this 1TB drive to storage only.
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I'm honestly not sure, as I immediately formatted the drive when I got it. Sorry!
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Here is the correct configuration:Total Hard Drive Capacity: 1 TBHard Drive Interface: Serial ATAHard Drive RPM: 7200
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7200 rpm. Love this machine... amazingly thin for the size. No dvd/br types of drives though. Missed that when I bought it but makes no real difference to me anymore. Boots in about 3 seconds.
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Dear Lance, I found a small memory (Kingston) built directly into the motherboard (like a micro SSD). The computer has only one hard drive at 7200 rpm. The operating system (Windows 8) is installed on small memory (micro SSD) and the new software I install, they were on the hard drive. Alvaro Acevedo
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Ive noticed mine running quite a bit hotter, I think its because the system is able to run faster, so it takes a little more power to the processor. I have compared power specs of the drives, and they are VERY similar, so its not a problem there. I can get a thermometer and compare temps, I have a stock one I use also, so I can run them side by side, and take temps from both to see how they compare. I have ran it quite a bit with the new drive, it IS noticeably faster, and I haven't had any issues yet with stability or crashes.
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The RPM is another factor contributing to the total speed of your drive. Your drive may have a sufficient read/write speed but the time consumed accessing those locations where data is to be written or retrieved is depended on the rpm.
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You should email them. The Red drives that they put in these units are not 7200RPM.
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It's 5400 rpm. Although 7200 rpm discs are usually faster at gathering data this hard drive will outperform both 5400 and 7200 standard hard drives. It's cache and solid state memory allows the drive to gather and process data very quickly. From the time I hit the power button to Windows 8.1 being up and ready to go usually clocks at around 14 to 18 seconds. I have an HP Envy DV6. Laptop with an I7 processor 6 gigs of Ram. Since installing this hard drive I have not found a desktop or another laptop that can keep up.
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The HDD speed doesn't matter as this product will eventually corrupt the drive.(5400 rpm IIRC)
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I don't know the rpm on this drive, but in less than hour, I transferred all of the data I needed to off of my main computer, to save it, before I have to reload windows. years of documents, files, folders, my music and my pictures all in less than hour
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Several model variations are available. Some have 750 GB at 5400 RPM while some have 1 TB at 5400 RPM.