Questions about G73JW-XA1: 1- What is the speed of the HDD?
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1- What is the speed of the HDD? the hard drive installed is 750GB and is 7200rpm (verified). It is pre-partitioned to a 250GB OS partition and a 500GB data partition. 2- Does it come with the gamers backpac and mouse from ASUS? No, this is one of the ways to reduce the price of the A1, the X versions dont come with mouse nor backpack. 3- Why is the global warranty provided (1 year) is less than the standard 2 year warranty offered by ASUS? Another place where the X version lower the price, since you dont get 2 years warranty they also lower the price, give or take like $100. If you wish to have full 2 year warranty just go for the A1 version. The XA1 is a water down verision of the A1, less warranty, less drives, no blue ray, no mouse/bag, less bandwidth memory, in exchange you get to keep $300. BTW XA1 is an amazon exclusive model so you wont find it elsewhere.
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Mine is installed in my ps4 and it is much faster than the 5400rpm stock. It boots, sleeps, and shuts off twice as fast as my friends with the stock drive. I'm sure you'd see performance boosts in a laptop or pc
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If you are referring to the SATA HDD connection, it is 3 gb/sec per the board manufacturer's specifications.
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I do not recall. I do not think the rotational speed of the drive would explain such incredibly slow transfer rates I was getting about 10 MB per hour.
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I'm running this drive on ACHI, so yea, it works. ACHI says its only running at 1.5 GB/s when it should be 3 GB/s for my motherboard and the drive clearly supports up to 6GB/s but it doesn't really matter since you'll pretty much never go too far over 200 MB/s with one of these drives.
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The spec sheet doesn't say, but almost certainly 5400 RPM. Max. data xfer over USB3 is 5GB/sec. There's a 2.5" external Hitachi at 7200 RPM but it appears to only have 750GB capacity.
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I honestly don't know about the speed comparisons you're citing, or the HD connections. The person for whom I bought this machine doesn't care about either one! I'd guess "No" on the HD, but I wouldn't want my life to depend on the answer. Sorry!
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This unit has a 1TB HDD. The 1GB listed is an error. A request has been made to have it corrected.
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What is the RPM for Western Digital 1.5 TB Caviar Green SATA Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD10EADS? Is it 5400 or 7200 RPM?
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Using Disk Speed Test my results are as follows: 109 Write and 106 Read on a Mac partitioned to HSF+. Hope this helps.
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As I understand it, the manufacturer does not publish the RPM parameter for most of their drives allowing them greater flexibility in using whatever internal device the need to meet the performance requirements. I looked and cannot find it specified. My educated guess is 7200 RPM.
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I always wonder that too with LaCie drives. Most likely 5400 RPM. They don't like to disclose this spec for some reason, but I recall seeing it elsewhere, or asking CS directly. It's for this reason, along with noise, I have not bought a LaCie and use G-Drive's instead.
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Thanks for the update. Did you mean the WD 5400 rpm 1tb drive 8 cache.. Can't find it in 7200 rpm. Thanks
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Interestingly enough, Seagate has chosen to NOT list the speed of the drive either on the box, on the actual drive or even in the rather skimpy documentation. It is possible that the Seagate site might be able to tell you. All I can say is that it is very quiet and I can't complain about the data transfer rate.
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Ok I look around and talk with some Sony technicians all they said was to get 5400 or 7200 rpm as long as it is SATA2/ SATA 3.0GB/s
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I just installed a new HGST Deskstar 4TB drive in this unit, connected via eSATA, initialized as GPT, formatted as a single 4TB NTFS partition with 64K block size, and ran H2testw on it (Write + Verify). Took about 18 hours at 120MB/sec, but it came back all good. I'd suggest doing similar with any drive you plan to use, just to be sure.
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Something is not right there. On a wired 1Gbps connection with a single copy I would expect at least 400Mbps, with speeds over 700Mbps on faster switches (efficient internal packet forwarding). That is from testing when I first received the unit (tested with 4 x 5200 RPM Toshiba 160GB in RAID 5, prior to 4 x 7200 RPM Seagate 750GB in SHR I have had in it since then - but I haven't tried that on a fast switch, my home switch seems to max about 500Mbps). For comparison, I've seen speeds close to single line speed (~900Mbps) on a DS713+/DX513 combo. If you are on WiFi, I would run hardwired tests for comparison. Then start troubleshooting your WiFi.