Hi
 
I have a hard disk that spins at 5,400 RPM in my laptop. Would that make a difference (performance) working on an external hard disk 7200 rpm with usb 2 connection? I've already checked to change the hard disk of my laptop but found it to expensive. Any advices?
 
Thanks

USB would slow it down considerably. If you want to speed up your hard drive replace it or buy a new laptop. If you have an esata port on your laptop you could connect an esata drive however.

Do you have evidence to show your hard drive is too slow? There could be other bottlenecks.

Cheers..

Externals that are guaranteed to spin at 7200rpm are expensive too. The famous names like WD and Seagate no longer guarantee spin speeds (they don't even state spin speeds in their literature). 

sharke
Externals that are guaranteed to spin at 7200rpm are expensive too. The famous names like WD and Seagate no longer guarantee spin speeds (they don't even state spin speeds in their literature). 

I believe they may be spinning something...

sharke
Externals that are guaranteed to spin at 7200rpm are expensive too. The famous names like WD and Seagate no longer guarantee spin speeds (they don't even state spin speeds in their literature). 

True. The identity of the drive inside the box of many pre-assembled external drives are poorly documented.  In some cases the same model number for an external drive may have a variety of different hard drives inside depending on when and where it is produced. Sometimes you can get the model number from device manager in windows and look up the spec sheet for that model. But by then you probably already bought the drive. The cheap way to be sure is to buy an external enclosure or drive dock and put your own drive inside.

I got a $100 internal drive for my laptop. It was WAY faster than what I was used to. I think it was a TB too.
 
I have an external RAID array (2 7200 drives hardware raid 0 with 32 MB cache each). The $100 internal drive is much faster.
 
The external drive is also esata and usb2. In neither configuration does it compete with the internal laptop drive.
 
The drives on my StudioCat PC are the fastest I've got. They standard old drives, just fast.

> RAM;6.00 GO
 
Couldn't make this out in your footer, how much RAM do you actually have? Thanks..

slartabartfast
...The cheap way to be sure is to buy an external enclosure or drive dock and put your own drive inside.

That's what I've done - powered external enclosures using Esata and USB, both with standard Seagate SATA drives.
 

I find that even an old laptop if treated to a new 7200 RPM drive will be a new machine. 
They do hide this fact often in the specs. But people seem way to hung up on process CPU power and in my opinion way to much RAM but overlook the hard drive. 

Cactus MusicPeople seem way to hung up on process CPU power and in my opinion way to much RAM but overlook the hard drive. 

Agreed.