Dell First To Offer 7200rpm 320gb Hard Drives!

http://gizmodo.com/391725/dell-first-to-offer-7200rpm-320gb-notebook-hard-drives

 

Now I just hope they will start putting those new 500gb, 5400rpm drives into their notebooks soon which should probably perform similarly to the 320gb, 7200rpm ones.

 

it's a notebook, not a mass storage device, get an external (network) harddisk

 

But why have an external drive when you could have it built into your laptop?

 

The more storage, the better and btw, I already have an external 750gb storage drive. This doesn't mean that I don't also want a bigger build-in hdd.

 

Nice! It would be nice to see them offer the 500 GB too. My how things have come since my first Compaq laptop in 2000 that had a 6 GB hard drive.

 

I want a 500GB >.< Im stuck with measly 120 gb 5400 rpm... need to upgrade but also need around 4 TB of external

 

More music storage!!!

 

Actully, when you check out the vista point, you will find that the lowest point comes from memory but not the harddisk. So it means 320G 5400 RAID 0 is enough for the system.

So, the goal we will like to touch is the Montevina, because it can support DDR3 1066, that will make the system more faster then before.

 

Just because "Vista says" that your hard drive is faster than the ram on a windows index score doesnt mean that you cant improve your systems performance by having a faster hard drive.

 

Dell already has the 320GB 7200 on their website, I'm gonna get it. how much faster do you think it'll be then the 200GB 7200?

 

I just bought it, hope it's alot faster then my current HD!

 

I haven't seen any benchmarks, so you will have to provide us with one! You may make the first one ever!

 

could someone link me to the hard drive...i think i might buy it, it should fit on my laptop? thanks

 

Well said, I'll do the benchmark when I receive it. It's gonna take a while though, seeing as I just ordered it, and we all know dell!

 

I'll order one from an online retailer, I don't fancy paying Dell prices for it. I've got a 250GB 5400RPM in my laptop and it does hold me back a little bit. I'm used to storing loads of CD and DVD images on my main machine. They are currently sitting on my old desktop across the network.

2x320GB would be perfect for me. Could let my Ubuntu, XP and Vista installs breathe a little bit (Vista in 34GB gets to be a tight squeeze after 6 months of use). I'd set up a separate /usr partition for Ubuntu and a Docs partition to move 'my documents' to for both XP and Vista, so that I could easily survive OS reinstalls.

The rest of it would be a big NTFS partition for game installs, archives, ISO images and the 100GB worth of emulator stuff I've built up over the years.

 

Yeah, but i would imagine it would take a while to fill 500gb hard drive space with music. I couldn't do it. Nightmare to organise.
Maybe movies.