As per the title. I remember way back when, going from a 5400RPM to a 7200RPM drive on the desktop level brought about a godly increase in speeds with everything, but at a cost. Do laptops experience an experience of the same magnitude, and if so, is it worth the cost of the poor drive potentially roasting it's little cocoon? Opinions / reviews welcome, hopefully from Bit-Techers which've had experience with the faster variety
I never noticed an increase from 5200 to 7200, but that's me i guess lol. I guess the same applies to a laptop, but with laptops you need to consider models carefully, 7200drives as they are, increased speed so more noise, vibration and heat, more energy being use. They bring thing you don'y want. A real upgrade would be a SSD, no heat, no nosie, no seek time, no vibration, flash(NAND) memeory as a harddrive. Though they cost price quite high £500-1000 depending on model and size.
As with a desktop PC... you'd probably notice the speed increase most, if/when you're in the habit of moving larger files. But in my experience, you don't really notice it in normal use.
I replaced a Hitachi 7200rpm into my notebook about 1 year ago and found it sucking the life from the batt. power consumption is something i did not foresee.
