Orion Duo hard drives - how fast (rpm)?

[aeonsound]

title says it all really!

just awaiting delivery of my Orion Duo and wondering how fast the hard drives are. is there any way of finding out - online info just says '100Gb SATA', and i need 7200rpm so i might have to buy a replacement drive...

thank heaps!

:)

[Karti]

Unless one of the techies answers I would go ahead and assume that a new laptop with a sata drive would be a 7200rpm.

It generally ranges between 5400 and your 7200 but being new I would presume the higher.

K
;)

[Coops]

The drive used is 5400RPM

[asteroid]

i dont think 7200 laptop drives exist, and if they did its going to eat the battery quicker...

[Coops]

Yes you can get 7200RPM Notebook HDD but they are not very common. Majority of NB HDD are 5400RPM

Although PC HDD standard speeds were 5400 and 7200, Notebook hard drives standard speeds were 4200 and 5400. 7200RPM is a fairly recent thing in notebooks.

Not all Notebook HDD manufacturers make them and they carry a premium. Plus they obviously do consume more power.

[Nox]

yep, you can also get 10k rpm drives that size :)

They won't fit though - they are SAS. We have em in the new servers at work.

Nox

[aeonsound]

thanks very much!

unfortunately i do need the fastest possible drive, because of the way my audio production software works (i.e. accessing lots of samples).

do you know if i could install something like this:

http://www.laptopshop.co.uk/hitachi-7k1 ... -1-hd2.htm (http://www.laptopshop.co.uk/hitachi-7k100_60_sata-laptop_hard_drive-1-hd2.htm)

in my Orion Duo?

thanks! :)

[Harry]

not by the looks of it aeonsound, the Orion Duo laptops have a native SATA interface, the same connectors you'll find in a Desktop 3.5" SATA hard drive.

so those pins on that hard drive wouldn't fit at all ;p

unless ofcourse, the image they use for that hard drive is a generic old image, and not the actual image for that "sata" hard drive listed.