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Laptop hard drive speed

Posted by Craig

Craig

Laptop hard drive speed
August 28, 2005 12:04AM

I have seen 4200 RPM and 5400 RPM hard drives in lap tops. It looks like the standard hard drive in the Powerbooks is 5400.
Those of you who use Powerbooks, do you use the standard 5400 drives without issue?
Anyone use a 4200? Any issues?
Thank you

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Craig

Re: Laptop hard drive speed
August 28, 2005 12:20AM

As a followup- the new iBooks have 4200 RPM drives.
I could upgrade the drive to a 5400 RPM.

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Jude Cotter

Re: Laptop hard drive speed
August 28, 2005 06:34AM

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For video you're really a lot better off with 7200 rpm.

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Shane Ross

Re: Laptop hard drive speed
August 28, 2005 06:53AM

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and never use your main hard drive to capture video...unless it's offline RT.

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Howard Shaw

Re: Laptop hard drive speed
August 28, 2005 11:14AM

I have a PB 17 with stock 5400, no probs-- aja i/o with fw 800 drives easily get uncompressed, have to flatten timeline to print to tape... works great!

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Luna

Re: Laptop hard drive speed
August 28, 2005 04:46PM

Also have 17 PB, works awesome ...
Hey Howard... what do mean flatten the timeline (nest, Output to QT?)...
Sometimes if there is media on dift externals it craps out while printing to tape.
Thanks-
L

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Luna

Re: Laptop hard drive speed
August 28, 2005 04:47PM

Has anyone put in a 7200 in a PB 17?
Results?
Cost?
Is this even possible?
Hi.
L

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wayne granzin

Re: Laptop hard drive speed
August 28, 2005 05:11PM

just get an external 7200rpm fw drive...
its not advisable to be capturing and worrking off your boot drive in the first place (though it seems many do with few problems)

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Howard Shaw

Re: Laptop hard drive speed
August 28, 2005 06:17PM

yes if I have more than a layer or two especially with audio I'll nest the final sequence for print to tape, usually all my media is on externals

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Jude Cotter

Re: Laptop hard drive speed
August 28, 2005 08:30PM

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What speed are your externals Howard?

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Howard Shaw

Re: Laptop hard drive speed
August 29, 2005 09:20AM