Internal 5400 rpm Vs external 7200 rpm USB2

AaronW

AaronW

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As the subject. I have a internal 250gb 5400rpm in my laptop and also have an external 500gb 7200rpm USB2.

What would be the fastest to use to open music, videos etc? I was thinking about changing my default location of My Documents folder onto the external disk and doing a sync each time I shut down. Is it worth the hassle?

Thanks for any info
 
A benchmark will only tell you which drive has the faster transfer and seek rate.

If the external USB can stream you music and videos without glitches, then I suggest you use it. It will mean that when you're using your laptop for other purposes, the laptop HD won't be accessed as frequently.

Keep your main documents on you laptop and backup to the external USB as frequently as you deem necessary.
 
i would use the internal drive as the external will be hughly limited to USB speeds, where as the internal drive will have full bandwidth of the bus it's running on either SATS or IDE
 
You'd have to benchmark, but my external is quicker. 7200rpm WD5000AAKS gets me 60MBps max (top end of usb2) and my 5400rpm Fujitsu something (macbook pro standard fit) gets around 40MBps max.
 
Internal all the way... even if it does spin slower, My Internal WD Scorpio 2.5" SATA which spins at 5400rpm reaches 52MB/s when transfering large files i.e 2GB, a USB Dekstop 7200RPM will never go over 35MB/s...
 
meansizzler said:
Internal all the way... even if it does spin slower, My Internal WD Scorpio 2.5" SATA which spins at 5400rpm reaches 52MB/s when transfering large files i.e 2GB, a USB Dekstop 7200RPM will never go over 35MB/s...
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What makes you say that, considering the theoretical limit of USB2 is 60MBps?
 
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