what is hard drive rotational speed - 7200 rpm or 5400 rpm?
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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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Hard drive is only 5400, but Windows boots much faster than I imagined and the laptop comes with 2 drive bays, so you can throw in a SSD in it's SATA 3 port if you wanted.
1884275
This model has a 1TB 5400RPM HDD, but also has a free hard drive bay. The first thing I did was buy a 500GB Samsung 840 SDD to boost system performance. I reinstalled windows on the new SSD and only use the 1 TB drive for movies, music, and other media.
1128354
The WD10JPVT is a 5400 RPM HDD, Amazon has it wrong in their product description.
603513
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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They don't publish what speed it is. They source different hard drive manufacturers. More than likely it is 7200 to meet the specs. From the various reviews from professionals, it meets their published specs. The transfer rates are very good. I liked mine.
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7200 rpm. Love this machine... amazingly thin for the size. No dvd/br types of drives though. Missed that when I bought it but makes no real difference to me anymore. Boots in about 3 seconds.
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Mine had a 200 gb 5400 rpm but I replaced it with a 1 tb 7200 for a great performance upgrade! R Smith
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2.4GHz, 16GB DDR3, 1TB (5400 RPM) Hybrid Disk Drive 1TB (5400 RPM) Serial ATA hard disk drive
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7200 rpm drives get SATA III while 5400 drives get SATA II. No, key code for automatic upgrade.
1975301
Here is the correct configuration: Total Hard Drive Capacity: 1 TB Hard Drive Interface: Serial ATA Hard Drive RPM: 7200
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I see no reason why a 5400 RPM drive would not work in it. I am using a 7200 RPM drive in it myself and it works great. I have not read that about a 5400 RPM drive & eSATA. In theory it should not make any difference. The interface is the eSATA part and eSATA ports will work with either RPM speed. Hope this helps you.
65273
The drive is 5400rpm. Honestly I don't notice as my OS is installed on the SSD so the OS is very fast. All of my programs are on the 5400rpm drive.
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I don't think there's a reliable answer because I think WD puts in whatever drive is available. I haven't heard WD give any answer to this question. It's really slow, so it may be a 5400 drive.
933442
Good Question for Amazon if they have both speeds posted. It is 5400RPM NOT A 7200 RPM
1364112
Several model variations are available. Some have 750 GB at 5400 RPM while some have 1 TB at 5400 RPM.
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I did a lot of research on that before purchasing and found out that the 500GB runs at 7200 RPM while the 1GB runs at 5400RPM.Hope that helps!
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No, it has a 5400 rpm drive. Really slows down otherwise great performance.
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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.