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Did I make the right choice? 5400 RPM

PinkWaters

PinkWaters

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I was wanting to replace my new cMBP hdd with a 1TB one, and I was torn between getting a 7200 RPM one or the slower 5400 RPM.
But since apple ships cMBPs with 5400 RPM ones by default, i thought there may be a reasoning behind that, like more battery life, less vibrations, less noise, less heat.
So I went ahead and ordered samsung spinpoint M8 1tb 5400 RPM one.
Any of you guys think i made a mistake ?
 
Is it your main drive?

If so, then 7200 rpm would've probably been better.
 
I'd say neither. I'd go for one of those hybrid drives that has an SSD cache built in.
 
You're fine with the 5400rpm.

Perhaps down the line, take a look at a small(ish) 250GB or so SSD for your main drive, and put that 1TB drive into an external enclosure?
 
Honestly i don't like having more than 1 hdd with 1 partition in osx, cause i tend to have all my data organized in the home folder under music, pictures, movies, applications and some other folders I created under the home folder :/

And that alone makes me don't like the idea of having a main drive and a data drive.
 
well if you do not work on apps that require alot of hard drive usage like video editing or sound then the 5400 rpm is good enough.
 
PinkWaters said:
Honestly i don't like having more than 1 hdd with 1 partition in osx, cause i tend to have all my data organized in the home folder under music, pictures, movies, applications and some other folders I created under the home folder :/

And that alone makes me don't like the idea of having a main drive and a data drive.
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You can make a fusion drive :) That is where the Mac makes a partition with the two hard drives as one. It picks and chooses what files you use most and puts them on the SSD
 
PinkWaters said:
I was wanting to replace my new cMBP hdd with a 1TB one, and I was torn between getting a 7200 RPM one or the slower 5400 RPM.
But since apple ships cMBPs with 5400 RPM ones by default, i thought there may be a reasoning behind that, like more battery life, less vibrations, less noise, less heat.
So I went ahead and ordered samsung spinpoint M8 1tb 5400 RPM one.
Any of you guys think i made a mistake ?
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Horrible decision. You should have gone with an SSD. Just return it and spend the money to get a 1TB SSD. It's dirt cheap now. :)
 
Livewings said:
Horrible decision. You should have gone with an SSD. Just return it and spend the money to get a 1TB SSD. It's dirt cheap now. :)
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Well, if the OP isn't really going to use up all that space a Samsung 840 EVO would've been an excellent choice instead!
 
Guys I don't think it's reasonable to expect the OP to return a 1TB 5400rpm to get a 1TB SSD that costs upwards of $600 while his first buy might not even cost over a hundred. Let's keep it within the confines of the topic of this thread, folks. :cool:
 
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