Performance hard drive shootout for our T-series

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rhema83 · #1 Post by **rhema83** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 7:30 am

So we have the most powerful Pentium M processors, the nicest screens, the toughest casings, the best keyboards in the market, etc... What performace hard disk would you put into your notebook given they cost the same at about $150?

Note: No, I didn't make a mistake. The Seagate Momentus 5400.2 100GB is going for $152.11 including shipping and tax, at Dell online!

RS_003 · #2 Post by **RS_003** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 7:43 am

Ill take the 16mb cache model

I think it will prove it self to be faster then the 7200 rpm's a random read and write. And thats what ill do all day

If you are going to rip files and stuf, sure the 7200rpm would be faster.

But as for now I am stuck to a 4200rpm 40gb 1.8" hdd in the X40

But a T42 is on its way with a 5400rpm 60gb drive

(8mb cache i think)

johnson · #3 Post by **johnson** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:09 am

I have a T23 and I just installed my 7K60 yesterday from a 30GB 4200RPM drive. The drive is quieter (didnt make the loud clicks like my old one) and it did save me about 5 minutes doing a virus scan. The time for loading programs like Photoshop stayed the same or maybe even a little longer

. I was expecting a lot more performance but I really cant say much since I only have 256MB RAM. Next upgrade is a 512MB stick from Crucial.

Edit: It seems like my hdd is spinning all the time and its kind of irritating. I dont remember it doing this on my old one. I used SpeedSwitchXP to turn it off after 3 minutes but nothing happened. It stayed on until the monitor shut off (5 min). Anyone know a remedy?

pdudas · #4 Post by **pdudas** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:23 pm

Toshiba MK8026GAX is a very slow HDD.
Although it has 16MB cache, it is slower than my thinpad's original Fujitsu MHT 2040AH.

Slower, louder, hotter.
Piece of [censored].

kjarrett · #5 Post by **kjarrett** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:59 pm

7K60. No contest. I love mine!

-kj-

JHEM · #6 Post by **JHEM** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:43 am

I guess the 9 7K60s I have installed in various machines around here tips my hand as to which I voted for.

Cool, FAST and quiet!

Regards,

James

raabjerg · #7 Post by **raabjerg** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 6:43 am

I would love to have the 7K60 if I felt I could use it. Unfortunately, the times I've tried it, I found it to be too loud for my ears. So I'd go with the 5K80 instead

RS_003 · #8 Post by **RS_003** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:49 pm

pdudas wrote:Toshiba MK8026GAX is a very slow HDD.
Although it has 16MB cache, it is slower than my thinpad's original Fujitsu MHT 2040AH.

Slower, louder, hotter.
Piece of [censored].

Can you post some benchmarks or some screenshots from atto or an other diskbenchmark program.

But now i know this: Hitachi 7K6

Only, I am stuck with the 60gb 5400

(on my new orderd T42)

rideDPU · #9 Post by **rideDPU** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:55 pm

Chalk up another for the 7k60.

Torque · #10 Post by **Torque** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:06 pm

got the 60GB hitachi 7200rpm drive in my T41p. Its fast, doesn't get very hot and I can hardly ever hear it. Only when it spins up at max load. The spin when near idling or working generally in windows i cannot hear.

Så my vote's for that one

pdudas · #11 Post by **pdudas** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:15 pm

Sorry for my late, but I cannot post any benchmark from Toshiba MK8026GAX.

I sent back the drive, so I cannot test it.

#12 Post by **daeojkim** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:16 pm

So the Toshiba's 16MB cache HD proved to be very slow and poor performer.

Then there are Hitachi's 5K80 and 7K60. From the reviews I think they had ver similar performances overall.

I don't know about segate 5k100. Have not read any performance reviews.

So my final choice would be Hitachi 5K80 8MB cache. I could use extra 20GB.

pdudas · #13 Post by **pdudas** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:22 pm

You can find a test here:
http://www6.tomshardware.com/mobile/20041213/index.html

M4A · #14 Post by **M4A** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:23 am

I would call the Toshiba MK8026GAX slow if I thought the difference between 203 and 199 was significant. I don't, so I won't. It depends. The 7200 RPM is the fastest of the bunch (those nine, anyway), but it's 7200, and it's a notebook, and it costs a little more. It will load programs the first time the fastest, but if you have the memory, the OS cache will handle almost all prior-seen accesses and so the disk, hopefully, comes into play so little that "10% faster" only "1% of the time" is hardly worth the wind noise. But, if all things were equal, of course, the fastest is always the bestest.

pdudas · #15 Post by **pdudas** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:18 am

M4A:

It was really slower than the original MHT2040AH.
Slower, very hot (the palmrest vas about 40-45 C°), and louder.

I made a clean restore from the backup DVD, and after that I find slower made a drive copy from the fujitsu.

Both of them was very slow.

I dont know the reason of this slow working, but it was terrible for me.

fb3 · #16 Post by **fb3** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 4:46 am

M4A wrote:I would call the Toshiba MK8026GAX slow if I thought the difference between 203 and 199 was significant. I don't, so I won't. It depends. The 7200 RPM is the fastest of the bunch (those nine, anyway), but it's 7200, and it's a notebook, and it costs a little more. It will load programs the first time the fastest, but if you have the memory, the OS cache will handle almost all prior-seen accesses and so the disk, hopefully, comes into play so little that "10% faster" only "1% of the time" is hardly worth the wind noise. But, if all things were equal, of course, the fastest is always the bestest.

Probably not relevant, but I installed a Hitachi 7K60 in my Sony K25 (replacing a Hitachi 4K60) and it was clearly faster but it also made the palmrest vibrate and it was nosier, too. Eventually I decided it wasn't all that much faster, for my purposes, and reinstalled the stock drive.

I have given some thought to getting a 5K60 to see if that, too, produces the vibration of the 7200 rpm drive.

Meanwhile, I'm quiet and vibration free. I assume you don't have the same problem with the Thinkpads (I've yet to put the 7K60 in any of my T20/T23 Tpads).

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