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500gb 7200rpm or 750gb 5400rpm
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I don't think the difference is large enough to be noticeable. None of the major numbers change: seek time, random read/write performance, power usage.
To get a real jump, you need to go the SSD route.
To get a real jump, you need to go the SSD route.
Go with the 7200rpm stick it in a usb 2.5" caddy and put a Seagate momentous XT hybrid drive in the macbook!
The hybrid is 10% slower than a solid state drive but 90% faster than a hard drive and is only £80 for 500gb!
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/laptops/laptop-hdd
Then use the caddy you built for time machine backups!
The hybrid is 10% slower than a solid state drive but 90% faster than a hard drive and is only £80 for 500gb!
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/laptops/laptop-hdd
Then use the caddy you built for time machine backups!
I would defiantly go with the 5400PRM, unless you follow aibo82's advice. I ordered the 7200RPM myself, but I think it's too noisy and not worth that little extra speed.
So now I have to find another harddrive and either use my 7200RPM as external harddrive or sell it. I wished I took the 5400RPM now.
aibo82, will the noise be the same with Momentus or will it be lower than the Apple provide? They are both 7200RPM, so I am a little worried it will.
So now I have to find another harddrive and either use my 7200RPM as external harddrive or sell it. I wished I took the 5400RPM now.
aibo82, will the noise be the same with Momentus or will it be lower than the Apple provide? They are both 7200RPM, so I am a little worried it will.
My happy experience with Apple and 7200
just got my 15" base a few day ago, then did what I always do with my macs: rip off the 4 gb ram and put on an 8 gb upgrade (it costed me less then a BTO)
, took the 5400 off, put it in a cheap case to become a BU disk and stuck in a great WDC WD5000BEKT-75KA9T0 (that I stripped from my previous MB) .
I find this HD very silent (I can't hear it over the purring of the 2 fans spinning at 2000 rpm) and rather fast.
If you do it this way you don't have to wait for a BTO and usually get 2 HDs at the price of 1.
just got my 15" base a few day ago, then did what I always do with my macs: rip off the 4 gb ram and put on an 8 gb upgrade (it costed me less then a BTO)
, took the 5400 off, put it in a cheap case to become a BU disk and stuck in a great WDC WD5000BEKT-75KA9T0 (that I stripped from my previous MB) .I find this HD very silent (I can't hear it over the purring of the 2 fans spinning at 2000 rpm) and rather fast.
If you do it this way you don't have to wait for a BTO and usually get 2 HDs at the price of 1.
Get the cheapest... I just switched my stock HD by a 500gb 7200rpm and it's 50 so you can always switch it afterwards
I decided to go with the 5400 instead of the 7200 as theres not really much in it I dont think. Unless your going to be doing alot of video editing I cant see there being an issue. Even then would it be stored to an external drive anyway.