What's the spindle speed of the HDD part, just 5400 rpm (WD avoids to specify, even on their home page)?
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Spins at 5400 RPM, that is whats keeping me from buying this drive. Good for laptop, but not desktop.120 GB SSD = $75.00, 1TB 7200 RPM HDD = $59.00, you do the math.
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According to several sources (including Anandtech) the HDD spins at 5400 RPM.
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For hard drives, mine arrived with Toshiba DT drives at 7200rpm. They work exceptionally well and are slightly faster in my tests than other drives at the same rating.
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5400 RPM, Not the fastest but it backs up all my stuff. I've had mine for over a year and it works fine.
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Thanks for the info, just out of interest how fast does your laptop boot windows 7 with the ssd going at SATA II?
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You should email them. The Red drives that they put in these units are not 7200RPM.
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5400 rpm- a weak point for this laptop. However, since this laptop supports up to two 2.5" drives, I recommend getting a decent solid state drive to use as the primary drive and delegate this 1TB drive to storage only.
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As I understand it, the manufacturer does not publish the RPM parameter for most of their drives allowing them greater flexibility in using whatever internal device the need to meet the performance requirements. I looked and cannot find it specified. My educated guess is 7200 RPM.
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7200 rpm drives get SATA III while 5400 drives get SATA II. No, key code for automatic upgrade.
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Neither. The rate is between 5400 and 7200 rpm. WD has a new Technology called Intellipower, which basically allows the drive to adust its rotation based on what type of data call is being made to it. Something to think about is that these drives sleep. If you aren't making any calls to the drive, they aren't spinning, so it can take a moment (how ever long a moment is) to spin up; however, once they spinup they can handle anything you want to throw at them. I absolutely love my WD My Cloud EX2 and the WD Red drives.
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This person was confused. You're right... SSDs cannot have a mesaurement of RPM since they don't spin. Furthermore, the ASUS EB1007P-B0040 comes with a conventional HDD and not an SSD, so unless they upgraded the drive to be an SSD, it should be a conventional 320GB HDD.
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What is the RPM for Western Digital 1.5 TB Caviar Green SATA Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD10EADS? Is it 5400 or 7200 RPM?
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I can check later when I take it offline. Right now the green disk access light is flashing rapidly indicating a lot of disk activity. In other words, it is currently recording some TV via my Snapstream / Beyond TV recording software. I'll get back to this maybe next week. I do know that it is 7200 RPM.
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apparently it depends on the drive, i have 2 new WD 4TB green drives and it will only see 1.8TB on either. i also tried anew WD 1TB Blue 7200rpm drive and it won't see it at all but it will see a WD 1TB green 5400 rpm drive.
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It has a 1 tb HD 5400 rpm and 3 ssd drives all in the 130 gb range running in raid for booting. Mine had a 90 day warranty.
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Hello Manuel. It has 5400 rpmOther Specifications:Capacity 2TBInterface USB 3.0 and 2.0Data Transfer Rate Up to 5 Gb/sRotational Speed (rpm) 5400Average Seek Time 12 msCache Buffer 8MBSystem Requirements Formatted NTFS for Microsoft Windows 8, Windows 7 or Windows XPMac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.6 or above), Lion, and Mountain Lion with included NTFS driver for MacAvailable USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 PortDimensions (WxDxH) 3.11 x 4.37 x 0.59" / 7.9 x 11.1 x 1.5 cmWeight 8.11 oz / 230 g
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I always wonder that too with LaCie drives. Most likely 5400 RPM. They don't like to disclose this spec for some reason, but I recall seeing it elsewhere, or asking CS directly. It's for this reason, along with noise, I have not bought a LaCie and use G-Drive's instead.
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I've had no issues with the speed of the unit. It really depends on the drives you use.