The 1TB HD is listed as being 7200rpm yet the MSI site does not show a speed and other sites show it as 5400rpm. Does anyone know which is correct?
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I have the MSI GT70. I have checked the HD model name and looked for it in the internet, and everywhere I found the concret model it comes with mine it says it is 5400rpm.
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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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I have not seen the actual specs, but it is slow , probably 5400rpm . This drive is good for back up, not immediate access time. That costs more , you know. DR
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It appears that the other hard drive has comparable specs. However it comes with a different firmware. Otherwise I think it is likely a matter of packaging and marketing.
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Speeds vary with different PC's and hardware I get around the 120mbs. Also what kind of ssd you use, that is a real picture. They do get really hot fast, not good for you're Msata. I hope that helps.
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That's exactly what I'm doing and why I bought this; however I am certainly no hardware guru. It takes a while for it to show upon explorer (4-5 secs), windows needs to read it, etc. I would go to the internet and find a forum that has a topic for hardware, giving them the model, intent, etc. Let me know what you find out. I am interested. My final goal it to set up a RAID, still need one more hard drive.
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Thank you for the info, I'll take a look. By the way would you recommend a 1tb 5400rpm or a 750gb 7200rpm? Is the speed trade-off worth the space trade off? thank you
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"Intellipower" RPM is intentionally not specified by Western Digital -- supposedly it is a *variable-speed* motor, I believe in the 5400 to 5900 RPM range. (They compare themselves on sequential reads to 7200RPM products, but mostly it's just a big cache and predictive algorithm responsible. On random reads, it won't compare so favorably.) Check out storagereview website for a full review of the WD20EARS, which uses similar basic drive internals.
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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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Hi Mark,It is 7200 rpm HDD speed. The 3220 info is referenced to the processor core model.Thanks,PCrush
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I have the prior 800/400/usb 2.0 version and it is 7200rpm. I can't imagine they went backwards..
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I'm running it on a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R mainboard. This week I attached a 250Gb EVO ssd to the IO Crest and the Samsung Magician software is reporting it as a SATA 3 (6Gb/s) interface. My drive benchmarks at 428 (sequential read), 57935 iops (random) and 402 (sequential write), 24716 iops (random), now well below the 540 / 520 max indicated. The drive has slightly better than 50% freespace.
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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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Yes and no, I have two of them (2TB and 4TB), the 2TB is 7200 but the 4TB is 5900. It appears all of them are 7200 except for the 4TB.The models of the actual (internal) drives are ST2000DM001 and ST4000DM000. In case you want to google some more.
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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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Just checked one of mine (using a great tool called "Crystal Disk Info". Great Tool, just choose "Custom install" {not express} and opt out of anything else, it's just bogus ads)So the speed says 5400RPM and it says 8Meg of flash (RAM). The actual internal hard drive is: wd10jmvw-11ajgs1 Look it up for more specs on the drive inside. Enjoy!
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My guess (as it's so hard to find the rpm spec anywhere on the WD site) is that it's 5400rpm. That said, it's pretty zippy and I've had no problems (other than Pro Tools refusing to work with it due to the non-Oxford chipset) streaming audio and video from it.