Macbook HD - heat concern

[superted666]

if i was to replace my macbooks internal disk with a better version like one from ibm say 140gb 7200 rpm. will this increase the macbooks temp?

Also i realise battery life will be hit but is this going to be very noticeable?

Thanks in advance

 

[twentyone]

I doubt it's going to generate much more heat. I would say there would be a bit more because it's spinning faster, doing more work. I would think it'd be negligable.

 

[daze]

You'll be fine. In my old PB 12", I replaced the stock 5400 RPM with a 7200 RPM. And no real heat issues. The 5400 was warm to begin with, and the 7200 didn't make much of a difference... In hind sight, the faster RPM drive didn't make much of a performance impact.

 

[Compatiblepoker]

I could see it producing a slightly larger amount of heat but not too much to really notice. Only one way to find out.

 

[dragon2611]

You'll be fine. In my old PB 12", I replaced the stock 5400 RPM with a 7200 RPM. And no real heat issues. The 5400 was warm to begin with, and the 7200 didn't make much of a difference... In hind sight, the faster RPM drive didn't make much of a performance impact.

i put a 7200RPM drive in my pc laptop and it was a performance improvement there but then it had a 4200rpm in their originally, but the difference between the 5400rpm and the 7200rpm drives in notebooks probably doesn't justify the extra cost of 7200rpm