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    Specs on the 200 gig drive?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by jjfcpa, Nov 15, 2006.

  1. jjfcpa

    jjfcpa Notebook Evangelist

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    I had a MBP on order, but ended up canceling it because I thought I would like to get the 200 gig hard drive. I need to run both Bootcamp and Parallels for my Windows apps.

    I'm thinking of partitioning the hard drive 100 gig for OS X and 100 gig for Windows, then running Parallels on the OS X partition.

    The specs for the 200 gig says 4200 rpm, but I thought I read somewhere that it was one of the new formats (vertical, I think) and it would be able to deliver the same performance as the 5400 rpm drives.

    Anyone got any solid info on this?
     
    jjfcpa, Nov 15, 2006
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  2. buddy1065

    buddy1065 Notebook Evangelist

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    Maybe this will help:

    http://www.barefeats.com/mbcd7.html

    Interesting to note when the 7200 and 5400 hard drives get fuller they become slower compared to the 200 gig HD, so the 200 may not be a bad choice at all.
     
    buddy1065, Nov 16, 2006
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  3. Wail

    Wail Notebook Consultant

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    Sorry if this sound ignorant of me, but how come a drive running at 7200 or 5400 would become slower as it gets filled-up as opposed to the 200GB drive? What has the speed vs. capacity got to do with this?
     
    Wail, Nov 16, 2006
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    Wail Notebook Consultant

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    OK, that was a nice article and fair to point out that the 200GB catches-up on speed as it gets filled-up. Still, I don’t understand the physics behind this. How is this possible?
     
    Wail, Nov 16, 2006
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    ez2remember, Nov 16, 2006
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