5400rpm vs 7200rpm

Hi,
I'm looking to purchase an external portable hard drive for booting OS X Leopard. I've been looking at:
LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Disk
FireWire 800, FireWire 400 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0
250GB 5400 rpm
and
OWC Mercury On-The-Go 200 GB 7200rpm
FireWire 800/400 + USB 2.0 2.5" Portable SATA Storage Solutions
Am I going to see much of a difference between the 7200rpm and the 5400rpm for running Leopard and its applications?
Thanks for all your help guys.

between the two maybe 12% although since firewire interface it really wouldn't matter. Internal I use 7200 rpm and external drives 5400 or 7200 rpm.

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Noticeable difference between 5400RPM and 7200RPM?

I am just wondering if anyone notices a large difference in loading times, games, etc. between the 5400RPM and 7200RPM hard drives? I am a bit worried with movie editing and music, gaming, etc. Thanks.

Yes, well sort of. I upgraded my 5400 RPM drive to a 7200 RPM drive and the difference is very noticeable. Some 5400 RPM drives are slower than others some are faster..same for 7200 RPM drives. So if you go from a slow 5400 RPM drive to a fast 7200 RPM drive the difference is very noticeable.

5400rpm or 7200rpm? - MBP 2011 17''

Hi people!
I will buy an MBP 17'' but...
I don't know if I should choose 5400rpm or 7200rpm hard-drive.
I am developer and I want good mobility...good battery autonomy.
With 5400rpm, mac have 7 hours browsing... but with 7200rpm drive, how much i will have? 6,5 hours?
7200rpm makes much difference in terms of performance, heating, battery?
15'' model has Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500Gb...
What are drives from 15'' and 17'' from 750Gb 5400rpm or 500Gb 7200rpm?
Thanks!
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Unfortunately the drive mfgrs. don't agree. Both variations carry the same MTBF estimations. Power consumption of the 7200 variant is usually between .1-1.0 watts depending upon the operating state: idle, startup, read, write. Heat generation is also negligible although the 7200 RPM variant may be warmer during heavy usage like doing a backup or restore. However, 7200 RPM drives are faster, and more so than just minor. Realizing the difference, however, depends a lot on the rest of the hardware. Put a fast drive in a USB box and it's slow. Firewire it's faster. But both interfaces are saturated before the drive can reach its potential. If the drive's SATA interface supports 3.0 Gb/s then putting it in a machine whose controller only supports 1.5 Gb/s will prevent the drive from reaching its potential. And this only deals with the basic interface.

MBP 15" 2.4GHz - 5400rpm vs 7200rpm HDD?

I intend to buy a 2.4GHz 15" 4GB RAM MBP. I am in a fix right now about going for which of the two HDDs 5400rpm vs 7200rpm (both of 200GB). The MBP with the default configuration(ie with 5400rpm) is for only 1699$ due to some stock clearance offer at my educational store. But, if I go for the 7200rpm the machine will cost me $1799+98, implying more $200. I intend to buy the extra 2GB RAM separately. Is it really worth it spending more 200$ on the 7200rpm HDD in my machine? I am a performance freak, and being a computer graduate student end up spending most of the time on my machine. Anyone who has used both the machines, please let me know if there is any noteworthy difference? I do understand that the decision is my personal one; but, please throw some insight and help me in making a decision quickly.

I bought a 7200rpm 100GB drive with my mbp. About a week ago I upgraded to a 7200rpm 320GB drive because I needed the space. If you, like me, are a performance freak, go with the 7200. I did and never regretted it. In fact i dealt with the space issue by buying a 500GB and a 1TB external (FW800). Because the new current MBPs use a 3.0gbps SATA interface, getting the 5400rpm might give you a bottle neck.
this is what i have now:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/laptops/momentus/momentus_7200.3/
original was the momentus 7200.1
If you compare the 5400.5 and the 7200.3 you'll see that there is a 20MB/s difference is sustained transfer rates. Considering the 300MB/s transfer rate of the 3.0 SATA interface, you will notice a difference. SATA likes 10k rpm plus, 5400 just doesn't cut it anymore. If you don't care about voiding the warranty, go to newegg and get the 7200.3 320GB. I got mine for about $175ish OEM (can't remember). Then turn your old one into an external.
Oh, and this thread is off limits for bickering about the differences between mebibytes, megabytes, and megabits.

Should I buy 2.4 GHz MBP with 5400RPM or 7200RPM HD?

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I'm about to buy a MBP for the purposes of 3D software (primarily Sketchup), Photoshop, video editing and some Windows based software such as AutoCAD. Chances are I will need to run some of these simultaneously using Windows on Parallels.
The question is, is it really going to make a big difference I go for the 7,200RPM HD? Is this something I might just decide to upgrade later? I heard the 7,200RPM HDs are likely to make the machine run hotter (makes sense)... Is this true? Is it more likely to cause problems I've heard about such as warping the laptop's body?
Any quick advice on this would be much appreciated (as I'm in HK until tomorrow, where I can get it particularly cheap - but I'd have to order the 7,200RPM one, which is more hassle...)
Many thanks,
Alex

a 7200rpm drive will be faster, there's no doubt about that. Just think if that wasn't the case all computers including desktops would still be using 5400rpm drives.
Now depending on what you do will dictate the how much of a speed boost you'll benefit from the upgrade. Normal users, web surfing office apps will see the biggest boost at bootup but then most apps will operate as they would on a 5400rpm.
Move on to more of the higher end applications like Photoshop, motion, aperture and you start seeing a bigger difference in speed.
For me, I opted not go with the 7200 drive, mostly because I didn't want to go the CTO route and while I use photoshop and aperture the speed difference matter little to me.

5400rpm or 7200rpm for Macbook with leopard?

I am getting a good deal on Samsung's 250GB 5400rpm drive but I hear some people say 5400rpm is not good for leopard and is slow. But some folks also say 7200rpm gets hot on macbooks and is noisy.
So I am really confused and would like to know what other macbook users say about them. I would really appreciate your inputs. Thanks!
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ipod_user wrote:
there are always good and bad points to everything, in this case they are quite even...
as the current macbooks ship with 5400rpm HDD's, this definitely isn't that slow, and if using your computer for every day use, the difference between 5400prm and 7200rpm will be almost indistinguishable, also the macbook air ships with a 4200rpm HDD apple obviously dont think this is too slow to be acceptable for normal use.
Of course a newer 5400 RPM drive is going to have a faster transfer rate than an older 5400 RPM drive due to higher "areal desity" (how much data is capable of being stored per unit area) with newer platters.
the good point for the 5400 HDD is that the battery can last longer, because the disk moves slower therefore consuming less power.
I heard maybe a .5 watt typical difference with the latest drives of both types. Might mean a few more minutes battery life, but about the power usage of a USB device like a mouse or flash drive. I think just dimming the display would make a bigger difference. In addition, new drives are generally more efficient and a new 7200 RPM drive might have about the same power consumption as an older 5400 RPM drive.
the bad point mainly made for the 7200 HDD is the battery life, which can be significantly reduced, but the good point is that leopard and other programs will run faster...
The way I saw it was that it wouldn't really matter with me since my MacBook mostly sits on the coffee table plugged into the power adapter.
so, its your choice, speed over battery...
unless you are going to be using a lot of high powered programs the 5400 rpm HDD should be more than adequate
Certainly nothing wrong with it. I just put in a 7200 RPM drive to see if I could.

Seagate 500Gb 5400RPM - Seagate 7200RPM

My problem is pretty much sorted now, but I thought others may be interested in my experiences. Essentially I upgrade from a Macbook to a Macbook Pro UniB 2.4Ghz - I put in a WD 320Gb 7200RPM drive, and then later upgraded that to a 5400RPM Seagate 500Gb.
Anyways, I wasn't too happy with the performance of the machine... Random pauses, generally a little lethargic. Anyways, I've now put in a Seagate 7200RPM unit and the transformation is massive - it almost makes me think there's something wrong with the 5400RPM unit... But I can't find anything screwey with it. For what it's worth it's now in a Dell unit and seemingly working well enough, and quickly. It's just not too great in the MBP?
Anyway, have a look here if you're interested: http://www.markc.me.uk/MarkC/Blog/Entries/2009/6/13Macbook_Pro_Hard_DiskUpgrade.html

I had a similar experience when I tried the Seagate 500 GB 5400-rpm drive in my MacBook Pro earlier this year. From my admittedly anecdotal observations, the drive seemed particularly slow on read access times. Also, I would occasionally get an odd UI stuttering effect when lots of data was being read from disk.
I found similar reports from other users on the forums at NewEgg.com. Reports on various tech sites (e.g. Tom's Hardware) seemed to confirm that read access times were around 19 ms, compared to 15 or 16 ms for many other drives. A difference of 3-4 ms might not seem like much, but it is apparently noticeable.
A week later, I switched to the Western Digital 500 GB 5400-rpm drive and the problem disappeared immediately.
Now I'm running the Seagate 500 GB 7200-rpm drive in my new MacBook Pro, which also seems quite snappy, perhaps even more so than the Western Digital. My only complaint is that the 7200-rpm drive also produces more vibration in the MacBook Pro's unibody chassis. But I expected as much and am slowly learning to live with it for the sake of performance.
-Dennis

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I'm waiting for my new MBP 13". I'm going to change harddisk for a large one. Should i stick for 5400 or 7200rpm? Will i get performance boost with 7200? What will happen to the battery time? Will a 7200 disk get hotter?
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What will LR3 like more... faster HD or more memory?
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It definately was justified to upgrade from the MBP15'Core2DuoLate2006 to the new one. The processor is only 0,4 GB faster is true, however, the LED screen is much brighter and crisper and noticeably longer battery life in addittion to all 'corrections' to bugs and bits here and there. I also got this new machine for free as a replacement to a damaged under-warranty screen on the previous, so that was the justification I wouldn't have said no, would you?
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7200RPM 200GB Hitachi Travelstar

Hey there
I'm new to this forum...
Has anyone tried the 7200RPM 200GB Hitachi Travelstar in the 12" Powerbook..
After 5 years of very happy computing, I am upgrading my poor battered laptop.. It now has the max ram and I want to speed up the drive.. I have read about the heat and battery issues but will try it anyway..
Cool forum BTW
Billy

Unless I am mistaken, Hitachi's 2.5" 7200 RPM 200GB Travelstar is a Serial ATA drive, which is not compatible with any PowerBook since they use Parallel ATA (aka IDE).
The largest compatible 7200RPM drive currently available is the 100GB Travelstar. However, if you want the capacity, then Western Digital's 250GB 5400RPM Scorpio is the largest you can get, and the speed isn't too bad. Other good but less capacious alternatives are the 5400RPM 160GB offerings from Hitachi and Seagate.
Unless you are doing highly disk intensive work, the speed difference between 5400RPM and 7200RPM should be hardly noticeable in day-to-day usage.

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•What version of Premiere Elements? Include the minor version number (e.g., Premiere Elements 12 with the 12.1 update)
•What operating system? This should include specific minor version numbers, like "Mac OSX v10.9.4"---not just "Mac"
•Has this ever worked before? If so, do you recall any changes you made to Premiere Elements, such as adding Plug-ins, brushes, etc.? Did you make any changes to your system, such as updating hardware, printers or drivers; or installing/uninstalling any programs?
•Have you installed any recent program or OS updates? (If not, you should. They fix a lot of problems.)
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•What is your exact brand/model graphics adapter (ATI or nVidia or ???)
•What is your exact graphics adapter driver version?
•Have you gone to the vendor web site to check for a newer driver?
•For Windows, do NOT rely on Windows Update to have current driver information
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RAM you want to buy:
[G.Skill 2X2GB PC2-5300 RAM|http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231135] for $34.99, no tax, and free shipping.
As for HDD I'll give you some options between [320GB, 400GB, or 500GB along with 5400RPM or 7200RPM|http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=Property&Subcateg ory=380&Description=&Type=&N=2010150380&srchInDesc=&MinPrice=&MaxPrice=&Property CodeValue=359%3A15133&PropertyCodeValue=3097%3A33643&PropertyCodeValue=3097%3A40 008&PropertyCodeValue=3097%3A40009&PropertyCodeValue=355%3A7777&PropertyCodeValu e=355%3A7776]:
I'd recommend the Hitachi 5k320 $59.99 after $10 rebate, 7k320 $59.98 after $20 rebate, or one of the 5400 RPM 500GB HDDs for $94.99 or $99.99.
You can also get a bit of cash back plus $5 through this [link|http://www.ebates.com/rf.do?referrerid=DMMneqKtzskNampKdYmMZA%3D%3D]

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•You MUST use an account with Administrator Privileges to run Premiere Elements
•(Doing Run as Administrator http://forums.adobe.com/thread/969395 [says Encore and also for "All" versions of Premiere] will sometimes fix "odd" errors)
•What version of Premiere Elements? Include the minor version number (e.g., Premiere Elements 12 with the 12.0.1 update).
•What operating system? This should include specific minor version numbers, like "Mac OSX v10.9.4"---not just "Mac"
•Has this ever worked before? If so, do you recall any changes you made to Premiere Elements, such as adding Plug-ins, brushes, etc.? Did you make any changes to your system, such as updating hardware, printers or drivers; or installing/uninstalling any programs?
•Have you installed any recent program or OS updates? (If not, you should. They fix a lot of problems.)
•What kind(s) of image file(s)? When talking about camera raw files, include the model of camera.
•If you are getting error message(s), what is the full text of the error message(s)?
•What were you doing when the problem occurred?
•What other software are you running?
•Tell us about your computer hardware. How much RAM is installed? How much free space is on your system (C:) drive?
•How many and what speed are your hard drive(s)... ie 5400rpm or 7200rpm or?
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•What are you editing, and does your video have a red line over it BEFORE you do any work?
•Which version of Quicktime do you have installed?
•What is your exact brand/model graphics adapter (ATI or nVidia or ???)
•What is your exact graphics adapter driver version?
•Have you gone to the vendor web site to check for a newer driver?
•For Windows, do NOT rely on Windows Update to have current driver information
•-you need to go direct to the vendor web site and check updates for yourself
•ATI Driver Autodetect http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/auto-detect-tool
•nVidia Driver Downloads http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

For those who have installed a new hard drive...

Like many of my fellow Mac-Heads, I am running out of storage spae on my little G4 12-inch. I have the 80G Fujitsu and would like to upgrade for more space. There are some 120G notbook drives on sale right now, and my scenario would go something like this:
1. Get the 120G Samsung ATA drive
2. Buy an eclosure to make the new drive an external drive
3. Run Disk Utility and copy my 80G drive contents onto the new 120G in the enclosure
4. Follow the online steps and intall the new 120G drive into the drive bay in my little G4 12-inch (looks fun and do-able!)
5. Run this configuration for a while, maybe a few weeks, and make sure it is all kosher with the new 120G drive inside.
Once complete, this would give me a new 120G internal drive and a whole 80G drive of external storage.
Problem is, I am not sure that it would work. You see, the 80G drive is partitioned and do not know how this would affect my swap.
Has anyone tried this, and what effects, if any, would I incur in the trade? How would the formatting of the new 120G drive be affected, aside from the usual "loss" of a few Gigs in the formatting process? Would it end up only being able to see the size of the original drive? (I am technically competent in the physical swap so that is not an issue.)

I did this about a year ago, but I went from 40 to 80gb. I pulled the 40 out and installed the 80. I put the 40 into a firewire enclosure. I installed a fresh copy of 10.4 onto my new 80gb. And then I transfered all the files I needed from the 40 to the 80 - i.e. back onto my powerbook.
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Of course, I backed up the 40 on a separate 40gb external before I began.
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