What are the RPM speeds of the drives? I have a feeling they are only 5400 RPM.
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True. But you'll be getting a tremendously noticeable faster speed simply from the thunderbolt interface cable. I was surprised at how well it performs while not in a Raid config.
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What type of drive do you have? Yo need dual raid SSD drives sata 3+ to get around those speeds.
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7200 rmp, my husband usually buys 7200 and 10,000 rpm drives for our recording studio.The slower rpm ones may last longer, but just don't well. (Barry)
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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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I didn't purchase the 250. But the description says 7200 RPM, so that wouldn't be a solid state drive as they don't rotate.
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Good Question for Amazon if they have both speeds posted. It is 5400RPM NOT A 7200 RPM
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Right, RPM would be about revolutions of a drive, however now with hybrid drives you will still see RPM but they have mixed storage creating an advanced cache so the performance is a lot better.
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Ya know, I've just not tested that. I'm using mine with three Hitachi NAS drives. I'm pretty sure the consumption would vary by the drives. 7200 rpm drives will certainly draw more power than 5400 rpm drives. I'd suggest you email their tech department. They are very responsive I'm happy to report.
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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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The label on the hdd says 3.0 gb/sec and 7200 rpm. I've read that the original ps3 hdd was 5400 rpm and a small speed increase can be expected in going to 7200 rpm.
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Mine has 2 Hitachi HTS727550A9E364 drives, which in this case translate to 500 GB 7200 RPM drives.http://www.hgst.com/travelstar-7k750In addition, it also features a SanDisk SSD i100 16 GB.
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You should email them. The Red drives that they put in these units are not 7200RPM.
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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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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 have 5 of these drives in a Sans Digital RAID box configured as two 2TB RAID 1 drives with a hot standby replacement drive. I've been running almost two years with no problems. I chose the lower spin rate (5400RPM) to be more reliable. I use the RAID 1 drives for backup/archive of other computers.
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In youtube there is such a video. A dude connects a flash drive into this and jumps to further velocities compared to 7200 rpm seagate backup plus
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On reading I noticed less than 5% difference than the ST3000DM001, On writing I saw the expected drop, around 15-16%. I wouldn't use that as a reason not to by these drives. I have 48 of them in 4 -8 drive RAID arrays. They are rock solid, perform well and run cooler than 7200 RPM drives.