![[H]ard|Forum](/styles/hardforum/xenforo/logo_dark.png){kind=logo}
freonchill
Weaksauce
- Joined
- Aug 23, 2005
- Messages
- 72
i posted this over in the hard drive forum and they said i might get some better advice here - so if i could get some advice...
so there is all this buzz about the new HHD (hybrid hard drives) for windows VISTA
well vista is coming out in 6 days (retail)
i have yet to see any "real reviews" regarding these new HHD
are there going to be any out OEM style?
the reason i ask is that my laptop [dell d800, centrino - banias, ddr pc2100, ide ata100]
and i had a hitachi 60gb 7200rpm harddrive which died back in november
i replaced it w/ the hitachi 40gb 5400rpm harddrive that came with the machine
before i get another hitachi 60gb or 80gb 7200rpm or a seagate momentus 7200 80gb for $100 / $120 i was wondering if it would be helpful to replace it w/ a HHD rather than a traditional harddrive
i would assume not since the following:
1. guessing that all HHD will be sATA rather than traditional IDE
2. vista or other major major software (driver or firmware) updates for windows xp (e.g. sp-3) will be required to take advantage of the flash memory
this is all based on my assumption that the [without being able to find much about the inner workings and hardware abstraction of the new HHD] all of the relationship of data between the flash and traditional spindle of the harddrive will be handled by external sources rather than by something handled completely by the internals of the drive.
i would appreciate any information and knowledge (including advice) regarding future harddrive purchase of harddrives for this laptop as the latency (or lag time due to the 5400rpm vs 7200rpm in a laptop 2.5in harddrive) is starting to really get on my nerves.
i looked @ the benchmarks from tomshardware [ http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage25.html?modelx=33&model1=426&model2=394&chart=144 ] comparing the 7200rpm 80gb 2.5 ata100 laptop drive models from between the hitachi and seagate models and it looks like one wins about half of the benchmarks, but im not sure which benchmarks translate to real life speeds on my laptop for photoshop, music/video watching, and CAD work for school.
thanks again.
so there is all this buzz about the new HHD (hybrid hard drives) for windows VISTA
well vista is coming out in 6 days (retail)
i have yet to see any "real reviews" regarding these new HHD
are there going to be any out OEM style?
the reason i ask is that my laptop [dell d800, centrino - banias, ddr pc2100, ide ata100]
and i had a hitachi 60gb 7200rpm harddrive which died back in november
i replaced it w/ the hitachi 40gb 5400rpm harddrive that came with the machine
before i get another hitachi 60gb or 80gb 7200rpm or a seagate momentus 7200 80gb for $100 / $120 i was wondering if it would be helpful to replace it w/ a HHD rather than a traditional harddrive
i would assume not since the following:
1. guessing that all HHD will be sATA rather than traditional IDE
2. vista or other major major software (driver or firmware) updates for windows xp (e.g. sp-3) will be required to take advantage of the flash memory
this is all based on my assumption that the [without being able to find much about the inner workings and hardware abstraction of the new HHD] all of the relationship of data between the flash and traditional spindle of the harddrive will be handled by external sources rather than by something handled completely by the internals of the drive.
i would appreciate any information and knowledge (including advice) regarding future harddrive purchase of harddrives for this laptop as the latency (or lag time due to the 5400rpm vs 7200rpm in a laptop 2.5in harddrive) is starting to really get on my nerves.
i looked @ the benchmarks from tomshardware [ http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage25.html?modelx=33&model1=426&model2=394&chart=144 ] comparing the 7200rpm 80gb 2.5 ata100 laptop drive models from between the hitachi and seagate models and it looks like one wins about half of the benchmarks, but im not sure which benchmarks translate to real life speeds on my laptop for photoshop, music/video watching, and CAD work for school.
thanks again.