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Have you upgraded your Macbook HardDrive ?
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Funny 7200 results ...
Though I'm probably not the only one telling people -- that a 7200RPM drive only spins fast. aka, marginally better seek times.
The cache will make a huge difference, if one drive has a bigger one -- it'll perform better. Because for small sub-8MB transfers -- it's all cache.
Some drives have more advanced mechanisms, these drives will have a mechanical advantage in transfer rate.
Otherwise all drives will operate around the same MB/sec in notebooks.
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Get the bigger drive, get the bigger cache, and definitely buy the cooler drive.
In desktop drives, skip the desktop drives and buy an enterprise class drive -- they may be noisier. But so what, they just may last longer.
Though I'm probably not the only one telling people -- that a 7200RPM drive only spins fast. aka, marginally better seek times.
The cache will make a huge difference, if one drive has a bigger one -- it'll perform better. Because for small sub-8MB transfers -- it's all cache.
Some drives have more advanced mechanisms, these drives will have a mechanical advantage in transfer rate.
Otherwise all drives will operate around the same MB/sec in notebooks.
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Get the bigger drive, get the bigger cache, and definitely buy the cooler drive.
In desktop drives, skip the desktop drives and buy an enterprise class drive -- they may be noisier. But so what, they just may last longer.
I used a friend's iBook G4 (12", 1ghz with 512 MB RAM) and it's weird, but it seemed to transfer files MUCH faster than my Thinkpad T43p (2.13ghz,2GB RAM, 80GB 7200RPM HDD)
I guess OS X transfers files faster than XP Pro? BTW, I'm on Mac forums because I'm buying a Macbook 2ghz hopefully
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I guess OS X transfers files faster than XP Pro? BTW, I'm on Mac forums because I'm buying a Macbook 2ghz hopefully
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