Rotation: Does 5400rpm seem slow to you guys?
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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.
1727352
This model has a SSD (Solid State Drive) which does not have any moving parts and hence does not spin. A SSD is MUCH Faster than a 7200 rpm drive
1749015
Boot is slow, mostly because of the kind of memory the OS is stored on. Components (memory & cpu) cannot be upgraded (case is very difficult to open) but straight out of the box it isn't bad on speed. Where are you having speed problems?
603512
If it had a 7200 rpm drive they would brag about it - so I'd bet it has a 5400 rpm.
1995152
I agree with D Marrone. I have 4 gigs installed and usually run at about 35% - 50%. 16 gigs seems very excessive. I suggest looking for a compatible hard drive that runs at 10KRPM. The one thing that can slow down a great computer is a 5400 RPM HDD (which this comes with). Slow to today's standards.
97229
I've had no issues with the speed of the unit. It really depends on the drives you use.
1464166
5400 RPM, Not the fastest but it backs up all my stuff. I've had mine for over a year and it works fine.
1795949
I just chatted with Samsung and they said the S03US has a 5400 rpm drive, but Amazon is showing 7200. All the other specs look the same. I did see some posts where the S)3US came with Windows 7 Pro instead of the Home edition. We'll have to see.
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I haven't noticed it to be slow or laggy at all. I'm not a power gamer or anything, so if you are that might be different. I've had 6 windows working at a time, and noticed no problems.
1448621
I agree with answer 1 and two. However I have had mixed performance with unit I would not purchase again.
509230
Yes! Heating speed AND program consistency. Are you also having difficulty with this? Thanks!
439413
Ok I look around and talk with some Sony technicians all they said was to get 5400 or 7200 rpm as long as it is SATA2/ SATA 3.0GB/s
1172966
Yes it seems to be in slow motion when using the Magic Pix(nightshot) mode.. although I'm not sure how this looks when transfered to P.C.
1082856
I will test it tonight and see. Last time I checked though it performed at good speeds. But I am only using a 4700rpm drive so I may be maxing out the read/write on it anyways. But from my experience it performs a lot better then 2.0. Also another note is that if you plug this into a 3.0 port you don't need to use the extra USB cable for power. The 3.0 port can put out enough juice to power the whole thing. I didn't know this before I bought and honestly wasn't a big deal, but helpful to know now.
897636
Mine that I just got today definitely has a gradual start. I can get it to run as low as ~5rpm pretty easily.
1208628
It's 5400RPM, so access times are "slower" than a 7200RPM drive. It has an 8meg cache vs. a 16m cache. I'd venture to say that neither of these are noticeable to the typical user. It's hot-pluggable SATA II, which are current capabilities. The 7200RPM/16m version is only about $5 more.
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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.