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Hi,

I am planning to buy a new hard drive for upgrading to Windows Vista.

I am considering buying a 7200rpm drive. However, my original hard drive is only 5400rpm and I plan to reuse it in the ultrabay. Will upgrading to a 7200rpm drive for the main OS be a waste of effort, given that I will have a 5400rpm in the ultrabay?

Thank you in advance.

I don't think this will be a waste, but of course your particular application mix and usage habits will determine exactly how much benefit you will get out of a 7200 rpm drive vs a 5400 one.

I configured my T60 with a 5400 rpm 80GB drive. I also bought the Ultrabay SATA adapter. I plan to replace the DVD burner with the 80GB drive, and install a 7200 rpm 100GB drive with the OS, etc. on it. That should give me enough room to triple-boot Vista, XP and OSX.

ronli_84 wrote:Hi,

I am planning to buy a new hard drive for upgrading to Windows Vista.

I am considering buying a 7200rpm drive. However, my original hard drive is only 5400rpm and I plan to reuse it in the ultrabay. Will upgrading to a 7200rpm drive for the main OS be a waste of effort, given that I will have a 5400rpm in the ultrabay?

Thank you in advance.

the main hdd cabinat is shock mounted, ultrabay isn't

I noticed that accessing the ultrabay drive (with os on main drive) is a bit slower than I expected. I would have hoped that the ultrabay 5400rpm drive would be able to move files very quick, like having a dual HDD desktop, but it seems as though transfer rates were on par with usb 2.0.

But using the ultrabay drive with an os on there, I hardly noticed a difference between the ultra bay or just the regular hd bay.

Currently, I use a 120gb 5400rpm perpendicular hdd as my main drive and the oem 100gb 5400rpm drive in the ultrabay for backups and misc. file storage. Running both at once really saps power, but otherwise, its great to have all the space!