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Upgrading HDD - differences?

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Avareyne

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I have 2 drives installed direct from HP, I had THOUGHT they were 5400 drives but they are in fact 7200 drives. I contacted HP to find out for certain.

They are Seagate Momentus ST9120823AS in 120 GB.

Is it worth an upgrade to another drive if I am just concerned with speed? Or am I only going to get minimal gains? I was considering WD Scorpio 7200 320 GB HDD and Seagate Momentus ST9320421AS. Will either be significantly better? Are there better than these?

My notebook is a DV9500 if that matters. I have just upgraded to 4GB RAM and want to see about upgrading my HDD before reformatting for Vista 64.

I'm noob to hard drives and have never been all that concerned but I am under the impression that it will help load times in my games and windows which I am concerned with.
 
I'd go with the Seagate between the two.

That being said, the jump from a 100gb 7200rpm to a 200gb 7200rpm drive gave a minimal performance increase. I'd say hold onto your money if you don't need the extra space those drives would give you.

I'm running my DV9500 with a 120gb 5400rpm, and it runs just fine. Sure, my T61p's 200gb 7200rpm is faster, but I wouldn't waste my money on that small of an upgrade.
 
It's not worth upgrading if you just want more speed. More capacity would be worth it, but going between 7200RPM laptop drives any gains will be fairly small.
 
Ok, thanks. My 2nd drive is completely empty, so I have no need for space right now. Glad I didn't waste money. Thanks again! :)

I have noticed a big increase in my game just from the extra 2gb of RAM. Hopefully a fresh install of 64 will help even further with load times (I still have the HP crap, sigh).
 
Oh god yes that will help out a lot.

The only HP software I'm running is the Quickplay buttons, and even then, I'd rather not have that.
 
if you have a first-gen 7200 lappy drive and you upgrade to the 4th gen drive, you'll notice sequential transfer differences ( large files) otherwise, not much.

More ram is a big deal.

I've got a first gen 80GB and I'm saving for the new 320GB from hitachi that's supposed to be about as fast as some top-end desktop drives.
 
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