Which hard drive for laptop?

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Danimm55

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Which hard drive should i select for a laptop?
320GB SATA at 5400rpm
or
200GB SATA at 7200rpm?
I'm guessing the 1st would have more room but the second would run smoother, correct?
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Choose the 5400 RPM. Your battery will thank you and your laptop will stick around longer.
Never ever ever ever put a 7200 RPM hard drive in a laptop or a thin client (mini desktop).
The temperature would kill it.
 
Well depends if you want the space...

If not, yes the second, the higher the RPM the better.
 
I recently swapped the 5400 RPM drive in my Laptop for a 320 GB 7200 RPM one.

The change from 5400 ---> 7200 RPM had a bigger impact on my system performance than did upgrading from 1 to 4 GB of RAM. THE BOOST IN PERFORMANCE WAS PHENOMENAL and got my laptop running close to the performance of a mid range desktop.

From now on the first upgrade to any laptop for me will be to a 7200 RPM HDD.
 
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