R40 and 7200rpm hard drive

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silverfirebird · #1 Post by **silverfirebird** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:49 pm

Will a 7200rpm work on a R40 2682 model? I can't stand this 4200rpm hard drive performance. It was ok for a while but now I'm starting to see the slow performance.

I'm considering buying a Hitachi 60GB 7200rpm hard drive. I want to make sure it can work.

rjenovai · #2 Post by **rjenovai** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:26 pm

silverfirebird wrote:Will a 7200rpm work on a R40 2682 model? I can't stand this 4200rpm hard drive performance. It was ok for a while but now I'm starting to see the slow performance.

I'm considering buying a Hitachi 60GB 7200rpm hard drive. I want to make sure it can work.

Yep, should work with no problems. I ran a 7200rpm in my R40 for quite a while (until the motherboard gave out). You might want to also bump up your RAM to 1GB.

Good luck with your machine

Randy

silverfirebird · #3 Post by **silverfirebird** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:14 pm

I plan on upgrading the RAM in the near future. I think this model can go only up to the 1GB and the Pentium M models goes up to 2GB. If I could put 2GB in my R40 2682 then that will be great!

*edit*
I ordered the 60GB now it's on its way.

#4 Post by **ZaZ** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:31 pm

It'll be like a whole new machine.

silverfirebird · #5 Post by **silverfirebird** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:24 pm

It's almost becoming like a new machine. I just upgraded the RAM today from 512MB to 1GB. I ran Memtest and it passed.

eghuff · #6 Post by **eghuff** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:42 pm

I've been running a 7200 RPM Hitachi drive on my 1G R40 Pentium M 2.4 Ghz for over a year. I do work on a local DB2 database, so the extra speed is helpful. I bought the bay holder for a hard drive in order to copy the preload to the new drive, though I have never bothered to get the recovery partition migrated.

silverfirebird · #7 Post by **silverfirebird** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:18 pm

I got my 7200rpm hard drive. I notice a difference in performance. Installing Windows Updates is quicker than before. The Windows installation was smoother too.

#8 Post by **ZaZ** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:27 pm

Yes people tend to only look to the CPU for performance, but that's only one part.

silverfirebird · #9 Post by **silverfirebird** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:42 pm

Yeah. It was easy to replace the RAM and the hard drive. I am going to replace the CPU in the near future.

The Spirit of X21 · #10 Post by **The Spirit of X21** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 2:15 am

Definitely go for the 7200rpm drive. As upgrades go, this is the most cost effective performance enhancer you can get. The RAM and processor can follow...

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