7K200 vs. Thinkpad 7200RPM 100GB.

7K200 vs. Thinkpad 7200RPM 100GB.

Has anyone seen reviews for this?

I didn't want to get the 7K200 because I didn't want to deal with porting over my entire OS onto a new hard drive.

Are there easy ways to do this?

 

Rescue and Recovery. I think the Hitachi has a bit better throughput though I suppose it would depend on your needs.

 

7K200 is way better because it has pependicular recording.

 

Okay, throughput and perpendicular recording. how does this make it better than thinkpad's 7200rpm?

 

Faster .

 

It's likely that the 100GB 7200RPM HDD that Lenovo offers is either a Seagate or Hitachi branded drive, both are very good. The advantages the 7K200 would have over them are prety much just in performance and capacity (what else is there? ) and the disadvantage would be price at the moment.

I can tell you from personal usage experience though, I used to have a Seagate 100GB 7200.1 drive that was quite snappy although not quite up to the level of a small desktop drive (due to having 2.5" platters instead of the larger 3.5" in desktop drives). I recently purchased a 7K200, and I have to say, it is noticeably faster than any notebook drive I've used and it actually is up there with desktop drives, both in feel and in benchmarks.

It may not be the best value at the moment, but if you can't stand waiting around for applications to load, I don't think there is a faster 2.5" drive out right now.

Hope this helps a bit.

 

The best value is the Seagate 7200.2 160GB I bought for $120. Not trying to brag, but show that the 7200.2 is a good compromise in price and performance. Loads better than the 7200rpm drives offered by Lenovo and lower in price than the 7K200. Of course the 7K200 is slightly better in performance, but it's not worth the price premium IMO and difference is negligible at best.

 

I just looked up the price for the 7200.10 on newegg. Only 85.00!

Thats makes it really hard for me to justify spending 230.00 on a 7K200.

EDIT: I found this benchmark comparing the Hitachi 7k200 to the 250GB WD Scorpio and the 160GB Seagate 7200.2
http://www.barefeats.com/rosa06.html

 

Um......7200.10 is a desktop drive.

 

What makes it hard is that the Hitachi 7K200 AND the Seagate 7200.2 both use perpendicular recording, whereas the default ones that comes with the T60/T61 (not sure about T61) do not. Those are 7K100 / 7200.1s that do not feature perpendicular recording.

I am considering a 7K200 over the 7200.2 as the 7200.1 thats in my T60 as a noticable idle noise (I am very sensitive to noise), and based upon my experience with a 7K100 that was in my other older laptop, despite being of different design, exhibited a quieter idle noise to begin with.

 

I have seen noise ratings for the 7200.1, and its the lowest of all the 7200rpm drives.

http://www.storagereview.com/160notebook.sr?page=0%2C5

Although the 7200.2 drive is indeed the loudest. 7K200 came out after the article.

 

Now if only StorageReview.com did a comparo between the 7K200 and the 7200.2...

Oops. /googling showed that they did! http://www.storagereview.com/HTS722020K9A00.sr?page=0%2C5

Therefore the 7K200 is quieter than the 7200.2. Kind of a pity that both are still noisier than the 7200.1... supposedly. I guess I just have extremely perceptive hearing. I'm too poor to buy a MTron SSD though /sigh...

EDIT: Comparisons also show that the 7200.2 does use considerably less power, and the 7K200 does too in comparison to the 7200.1, but not as much. Either way I'll have extended battery life... all.. like... 5 minutes of it! (Really though, anyone know if the impact on battery life is negligible or should be considered?)

 

7K200 is too expensive. And .4 decibels is REALLY REALLY unnoticeable.

 

I am going to wait until later on this year (probably even into next year) for the prices to drop. Hopefully I'll see perhaps a newer model coming out with the possibility of price drops of one of these series upcoming @ CES

 

I meant 7200.2... BUT. There are actually 2 7200.2's actually. OIne is 3.5", and thats the 85.00 one.

see here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=7200.2&x=0&y=0

 

Lol. by then it'll be the 7k1terabyte. lol.

 

They are both desktop drives. They do not work in laptops. The 7200.2 I'm talking about is the Seagate Momentus 7200.2, not the SV35. Newegg does not currently sell the Momentus 7200.2.

 

My 7200.2 is every bit as cool and quiet as my 7200.2. From what I've gathered that can vary from one drive to the next.

I ordered the 7k200, but when I saw the 7200.2 going on Dell for $115, I decided it wasn't worth twice as much. I was happy with the performance of the 7200.1, I just needed a little more space. If you have one of the bigger 5400RPM drives, you may want to hang onto it as they benchmark pretty close to the 7200.1.

 

Yeah, I dont know what to do honestly. I did see that Dell special, but decided not to get it. Oh well, I'm not really in any rush, just want better performance at lower noise.

 

I would hope so. Bipolar drives can't be good.

 

Maybe this will add to your thought process:

Here is what I am thinking about doing, I am going to buy the 7K200. Put in in the ultrabay, and use Acronis to copy the stock drive onto the 200 gb drive. Then put the 200 gb in as the main drive and have the 160 gb 5400 rpm as a secondary. You guys think that will work?

 

Exactly what I did... but with the stock 5400rpm 120gig drive

And.. holy geez is the 7k200 worth it. Though two drives running, man does that suck down power when I have VMware chugging along among all my other desktop apps. Good thing I'm hardly on battery.

 

Yeah, right now the 7200.2 160GB is one of the best values for the money for the speed and capacity you get.

As far as noise goes, the 7K200 is probably closest to a Seagate 100GB 7200.1 RPM drive for idle noise (maybe a tad quieter) but for seeks it's much quieter. I can hardly hear seeks where on the 5K160 that came with my T60, it was much more obvious when the drive was working on something.

 

Maybe I'm just deaf, but I can't hear my 7k200. Compare that to the fujitsu drive that came with it, which is pretty loud when seeking. The 7k200 is obviously hotter, but the heats not really noticeable if the ambient temperature isn't high and if I don't have my 2nd drive isn't spinned up.