Topic: 250gb Hdd, 7200 Rpm (Read 78 times)

deadeyes989 · « **on:** November 04, 2009, 11:36:00 AM »

I just bought, and flashed this drive:
http://www.newegg.co...N82E16822136280

It's a 320GB drive, 7200 RPM, it was only $5 more then the 250GB variant, so what the hell I thought.

After flashing and moving everything back over, I tryed installing, and playing the installed game off the drive, and I noticed with the 7200 RPM vs the original 20GB [5400 RPM] drive, the install was much faster on borderlands at least. I thought that the flashing would make the drive run in 5400 RPM mode or something, but it seems to be much faster then 5400 RPM would allow. Load times didn't change to my knowledge, maybe by a few seconds. I also installed Halo 3, Gears of War 2, Fable II, and Left 4 dead. I am unsure if those install times changed however since I never installed them on my old drive.

Final thought:
Buy the 7200 RPM drive, install times are finally bearable.

deadeyes989 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 04, 2009, 08:12:00 PM »

Me too, but I'm happy with mine as-is to say the least

deadeyes989 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 05, 2009, 09:56:00 PM »

That is a good point, but unless something else affected the install time, I can say with 100% assurance the install time was quicker for borderlands. Now that you mention the DVD-drive speed though, you make a really good point. Yet in-game load times off the HDD don't seem much faster at all with the new HDD vs. my old one. Quirky results huh? I really wish I had actually benched the drives with a stopwatch or something on install an load times.

CamGT · « **Reply #3 on:** November 06, 2009, 12:52:00 PM »

QUOTE(robo989 @ Nov 6 2009, 02:26 AM)

Please time it otherwise it must be placebo effecting you. I could understand game load times being slightly faster but no way DVD installing times.

Also, don't install Halo 3 - it will SLOW load times because it does a lot of caching if a hard drive is present.

Actually with a 7200 RPM drive that has a 16MB cache, Halo 3 could quite possibly load faster. I know the campaign loads ALOT faster installed on my HDD (potentially twice as fast) Vs. loading from the disc (and I have a Benq drive mind you)

deadeyes989 · « **Reply #4 on:** November 07, 2009, 11:33:00 AM »

I don't feel like hooking up my old drive right now, however, I can say that load times are faster on halo 3 with the 7200RPM vs DVD or 5400RPM drive, and I know that loading off the 5400RPM is slower than DVD.

7200 > DVD > 5400

No placebo effect here, loading a new campaign, and a few multiplayer maps were faster by a few seconds on the 7200RPM.

iwanttheagrocrag · « **Reply #5 on:** November 09, 2009, 09:41:00 AM »

Thats what Ive always thought too, when there is a 5400rpm in a computer its so slow and I immediately upgraded my computers to 7200rpm if the hard drive are 5400rpm. Because there is always a very noticeable difference. When they said the 360 had a 5400rpm hard drive i was kind of disappointed because that's were all the information is coming from so why skimp out. I guess the logical reason would be its spinning slower so its cheaper and lives longer, and harder to damage if it falls. But at less performance. I'm very glad to hear that you can upgrade it to a 7200rpm

. Now lets see about 10k and 15k lol probably wouldn't work for a number of reasons but i can always dream.

robo989 · « **Reply #6 on:** November 10, 2009, 03:08:00 PM »

QUOTE(iwanttheagrocrag @ Nov 9 2009, 06:41 PM)

Thats what Ive always thought too, when there is a 5400rpm in a computer its so slow and I immediately upgraded my computers to 7200rpm if the hard drive are 5400rpm. Because there is always a very noticeable difference. When they said the 360 had a 5400rpm hard drive i was kind of disappointed because that's were all the information is coming from so why skimp out. I guess the logical reason would be its spinning slower so its cheaper and lives longer, and harder to damage if it falls. But at less performance. I'm very glad to hear that you can upgrade it to a 7200rpm

. Now lets see about 10k and 15k lol probably wouldn't work for a number of reasons but i can always dream.

7200rpm laptop drives with standard laptop power supply requirements weren't even around in 2005 on a consumer level. There was no skimmping.

ProfessorPork · « **Reply #7 on:** November 10, 2009, 10:34:00 PM »

QUOTE

I just bought, and flashed this drive:
http://www.newegg.co...N82E16822136280

It's a 320GB drive, 7200 RPM, it was only $5 more then the 250GB variant, so what the hell I thought.

After flashing and moving everything back over, I tryed installing, and playing the installed game off the drive, and I noticed with the 7200 RPM vs the original 20GB [5400 RPM] drive, the install was much faster on borderlands at least. I thought that the flashing would make the drive run in 5400 RPM mode or something, but it seems to be much faster then 5400 RPM would allow. Load times didn't change to my knowledge, maybe by a few seconds. I also installed Halo 3, Gears of War 2, Fable II, and Left 4 dead. I am unsure if those install times changed however since I never installed them on my old drive.

Final thought:
Buy the 7200 RPM drive, install times are finally bearable.

I think I know the answer, but did the drive show up as 250gb or 320gb when you put it in the xbox 360?

~Pork

iwanttheagrocrag · « **Reply #8 on:** November 14, 2009, 09:57:00 PM »

dude check this thread out, someone put a 10k raptor in a the 360 and it recognized it. 10k raptor link

CamGT · « **Reply #9 on:** November 21, 2009, 10:10:00 AM »

No we can't. Install times have nothing to do with the drive itself... at least so long as the drive is already the faster of the two means between the DVD player and the hard drive.

Now the 7200 RPM should load games faster... but install time is hard limited by the DVD player in this case.

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