Things are about to change. Challenged by the near-instantaneous boot times of SSDs, many OEMs are starting to offer more 7200 RPM HDD options at lower price points. Some are even using 7200 RPM drives by default, especially in desktop replacement and workstation notebooks.More info at DailyTech.
The performance difference can be quite large. 7200 RPM drives have a theoretical 33% performance advantage over their 5400 RPM peers. However, the performance delta can be even greater if the 7200 RPM drive has more cache and higher areal density, which enables the spindle heads to read more data.
Seagate: 50 percent of notebooks to get 7200RPM HDD by 2011
Posted on Tuesday, December 08 2009 @ 19:25 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck