Laptop HDD Desktop use???

[zeeDj]

i have a question

how come more ppl dont use laptop HDD's 2.5's over the 3.5 hdds for there desktop it would seem that the laptop drives would be more stable do to shock and vibration an d lets not forget its small form factor over the 3.5 drives i mean think of it you could almost if not more double your hhd space by useing a laptop drive i can put 2 almost 3 drives in the 3.5 hhd slot on my desktop and plus the laptop hdd drives make it great for a htpc and then u also get more air flow an d less heat as well and one would think that a laptop hdd would use less power idk but one would think thay would ?

Again this is just a question and a wounder that i have been thinking and a build ill be doing soo please feel free to comment below id like to hear some ppls thoughts on this and i dont know why companys and the comsumer base does not use them and go this way !

Thanks in takeing the time in reading !

 

[Dk975]

The capacity of laptop drives is lower than desktop drives, so if you need a lot of space, it is better to go with desktop drives. Laptop drives are more expensive than desktop drives at the same capacity. Finally, laptop drives are slower than desktop drives at the same rotational speed.

True they save space and might run cooler but the above reasons dictate why many choose desktop drives.

 

[jackofalltrades]

Why not use SSD's instead? they are cool all the time and lower power and if capacity is the concern go with a ssd boot drive and a spinner for size. That's the way I roll.

 

[bigblueshock]

Laptop drives can not obtain the faster read/write speeds of desktop drives either. High end to high end.

All our recent dell computer purchases at our jobs came with laptop drives though. I suppose manufacturers are putting laptop drives into desktops now. The last time I saw a desktop drive was with the optiplex 9010's. The optiplex 9020's had laptop sized drives.

 

[yowen]

Laptop drives can not obtain the faster read/write speeds of desktop drives either. High end to high end.

All our recent dell computer purchases at our jobs came with laptop drives though. I suppose manufacturers are putting laptop drives into desktops now. The last time I saw a desktop drive was with the optiplex 9010's. The optiplex 9020's had laptop sized drives.

My 7020 has a desktop drive.

 

[Deleted member 245375]

Well, let's be honest about the state of technology in today's computer usage scenarios: if you want high performance for the OS and applications, you use an SSD, period, there's just no getting around that aspect (and by SSD I mean any type of solid state device, whether it's a traditional 2.5" form factor but also mini-PCI or NVMe based form factors and interfaces as well).

If you want raw storage, that's where hard drives come in and while 3.5" form factor devices offer considerably more storage capacity, there is no real difference that actually matters between using a 2.5" drive vs a 3.5" drive at this point in time. I have a Hitach Travelstar 2.5" 640GB drive attached to an eSATA port on the docking station for my Latitude E6420 and it can do sustained reads around 125MB/s which is typical of such drives and 3.5" models aren't going to be that much faster for reads.

Desktop hard drives offer more capacity as stated but do so with higher power requirements as well (not by that much, however), so it's a trade-off as it always is. Since I only use laptops nowadays it's a non-issue for me that all my storage is 2.5" form factor based so I suppose I have a slight bias towards it.

Speed = SSD/etc, storage = hard drives, it's pretty simple.

 

[matt167]

I removed the top HD bracket from my T3500 for the GTX 1060 6gb to fit. So with my PNY SSD being 2.5" I ran a spare 250gb 2.5" drive I had laying around on the back side of the dual 2.5"-3.5" bracket that I bought. The cabling for 2 drives was there and nice and neat so no reason not to take advantage..

The other thing to think about with them is, although you can physically put at least 2 in a 3.5" space, and I know that there are 5.25" adapters that allow 4 2.5" drives to be installed. You have to have a motherboard that supports that many drives, or you have to use third party PCI-E Sata controllers.

 

[Archaea]

there is no real difference that actually matters between using a 2.5" drive vs a 3.5" drive at this point in time. I have a Hitach Travelstar 2.5" 640GB drive attached to an eSATA port on the docking station for my Latitude E6420 and it can do sustained reads around 125MB/s which is typical of such drives and 3.5" models aren't going to be that much faster for reads.

A 3.5” 4TB ironwolf storage drive is more like 200MB per second — not 125MB second. There is a general difference and the desktop drives are generally a reasonable amount faster. Greater reliability, more space for the cost, faster access times.

 

[Deleted member 245375]

How fast does anyone need raw storage to be?

Even 4K video streams (and by that I mean 4K video streams that people watch aka compressed and not raw 4K native footage that is going to be edited and then compressed) don't require anywhere near 200MB/s, more like a few dozen megabits per second so, while yes a 200MB/s hard drive could theoretically provide a shitload of bandwidth for streaming the nature of the drive - physical, with moving parts - means you'd be limited in terms of potential read output more by the physical aspects than the transfer rate potential.

Anyway, we're all on the same page here I think, and each form factor has benefits in their own respects.

 

[PliotronX]

Laptop drives can not obtain the faster read/write speeds of desktop drives either. High end to high end.

All our recent dell computer purchases at our jobs came with laptop drives though. I suppose manufacturers are putting laptop drives into desktops now. The last time I saw a desktop drive was with the optiplex 9010's. The optiplex 9020's had laptop sized drives.

Yep, manifested in slow as balls notebook performance with an i5 6500 in the 7040s at work. Needless to say, those were all replaced with 850 Evos in short order.