What's the hard drive speed?
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go to dell.com for product specs. I just bought a studio 15 with 500GB / 7200 rpm
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A regular harddrive reads and writes about about 80 megs per second, this drive does it at around 400 mps. Its really impressive, but you need to make sure both the drive and the computer its connected to have SSDs and thunderbolt to take advantage of the speed.
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I ordered the 80g from Rakuton, it was shipped from Referbished PC and worked only two days. I am really not sure what the hard drive actually is.
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I can't remember the speed, but it is 8 gigs. 1 year later and no problems other then Windows 8 being a pos
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Read/Write speed, how fast you can transmit your files from/to the flash drive
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You should be able to use a USB 2.0 cable to connect your hard drive to your computer. USB 3.0 is compatible with 2.0. You'll just get 2.0 speeds.
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The RPM is another factor contributing to the total speed of your drive. Your drive may have a sufficient read/write speed but the time consumed accessing those locations where data is to be written or retrieved is depended on the rpm.
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I have yet to see a HDD run at 6 GBps. It does seem to be as fast as if the drive was internally installed.
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It is a typo. The Hard drive, or more specifically the Solid State Drive, is 256 Gb total as the other two answers state.
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It is not specified in any information included with the drive , nor anything I see on-line at WDC.com. Probably a 5,400 RPM drive but it doesn't really matter. The drive is intended for backing up data not for high performance data access. The slowest link will determine the transfer speed so the USB controller on your computer will be a limiter. It took me over 5 1/2 hours to copy 622 GB to this unit. It held close to a 30 MB/sec rate on a USB 2 port. About the same results for a Firewire 800 connection I have used on other tests on other (faster drives). My suggestion is ... don't worry about the RPMs. If you need backup space this will work well.
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The windows index speed is at 5.9. But this is in my opinion incorrect. This score is limited by the actual speed of the hard drive. But doesn't take in account for the 24 gig ssd that the hard drive uses to cache In and out of. These new hybrid drives are extremely fast. I have a dell m6700 fully loaded at 7.4 and this desktop is faster.
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The hard drive is a 1.8" form factor micro-sata drive. Any capacity drive is supported, so long as it is 1.8" form factor with a micro-sata connection.
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HDD 5400 rpm, but you can probably a SSD if you want. Either way the computer processing speed is great to begin with. Mine is very fast.
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i only see 320 mentioned, but you can shop dell.com and configure one specifically - I just bought studio 15 with 500gb/7200 rpm hard drive
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http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1704I quote: "We can only guarantee drive capacity. We cannot guarantee a particular internal hard drive model, data interface, rotational speed, or cache size in the external hard drive enclosure."So it's probably 5400 RPM (the cheaper option).
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I have no idea but the hard drive has not giving me any problems, and it's a beast of a desktop
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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.