older 5400 rpm HDD is failing, wonder will newer 7200 rpm run at 7200 or at the 5400 speed?
1939445
As far as I know the hard drive speed is dependent on the hard drive not your PC so it should run at what ever the hard drive is rated at. It should run at 7200RPM.
1939446
A 7200 rpm hard drive will run at said speed as a 5400 rpm hdd will run at 5400 rpm. The higher the rpm, the faster the drive.
810701
Yes you can. If you are going to replace the drives try to go with the same name drives or at least 7200 RPM.
1924057
Western Digital calls this "IntelliPower" (Doc #3665 & #3892), Essentially it means that it operates between 5400 rpm & 7200 rpm depending on the need of of the application that is using it. I called their 1-800 "Pre-sale" line and asked for the documentation. "WD Green Power drives comparisons vs. traditional 7,200 RPM drives Answer ID 3892 | Last Updated 03/04/2011 Overall, this product meets the performance requirements of most applications while delivering significantly less power consumption. If your application requires mostly sequential read/writes, then the drive will perform comparable to a 7,200 RPM drive. However, if your application performs mostly random mode operations, then the performance may drop by about 10% because of the latency time. If the Green Power product does not meet your performance needs then we have our Raid Edition line of 7,200 RPM Enterprise drives that will deliver the performance you need at the industry's best reliability."
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I got the 7200 rpm 1 tb, Both are hard drives. Your laptop has a mount when you take the old one out. You will need to remove the mount to install the new Hard Drive and put it on the new Disk Drive. I was a very simple process for me however, you need an image of your Operating System to reinstall your (OS).
1884273
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.
2062746
I would recommend using one on Thecus's compatibility list: http://www.thecus.com/download/compatibility/hdd/N4520SERIES_N2800_N4800_N4800Eco_N5550_N4510U_N7510_HDD_SSD_list.pdfAlso consider that Enterprise rated drives will last longer and potentially perform a bit faster, but might not be worth the price bump for just backups.
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Yes, almost any sata 2, 2.5 will work, (the thicker ones may require you to check how thick you can go with in your model). I would suggest you go with a faster speed though, like 7200 or even 10000 rpm, as you will get better performance with the faster seek times compared to the 5400 rpm. Personally, on a laptop, I would fork out the extra cash for an ssd drive, as it is not only faster, but more reliable if you move the laptop around a lot.
1128358
Thanks for the update. Did you mean the WD 5400 rpm 1tb drive 8 cache.. Can't find it in 7200 rpm. Thanks
1975299
Here is the correct configuration:Total Hard Drive Capacity: 1 TBHard Drive Interface: Serial ATAHard Drive RPM: 7200
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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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I have the prior 800/400/usb 2.0 version and it is 7200rpm. I can't imagine they went backwards..
239434
5400 is slow. It also allows the drive to produce significantly less heat. Pack several drives into a small space and heat becomes an issue. I don't need my NAS to be fast. I do need it to be reliable. Cooking the drive in the middle caused me trouble in the past.
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I've been working with computers for a long time (currently a Network Admin), with that said, motor rpm speed has nothing to do with interface type. eSATA is simply external SATA; so if a 5400 rpm drive will work with normal SATA (which it does-however 5400 won't saturate anything more than SATA II), you will be totally fine.
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They do!5400 rpm drive to 5400rpm drive I get 65-75 Mb/s minimum using both ports.
1160024
Yes and no, I have two of them (2TB and 4TB), the 2TB is 7200 but the 4TB is 5900. It appears all of them are 7200 except for the 4TB.The models of the actual (internal) drives are ST2000DM001 and ST4000DM000. In case you want to google some more.
893117
Dear Jose, These G-Drives come in 5400 and 7200rpm versions... read carefully! Luke
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7200 rpm drives get SATA III while 5400 drives get SATA II. No, key code for automatic upgrade.