On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 09:24 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Friday, 2008-12-26 at 19:36 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
My only major complaint about laptops is that they're generallly fitted with slower (5400rpm) drives than desktops. My wife's main destop (win2K) has two 10,000 rpm scsi drives with one for the OS and swap and the other for data.
I wonder if the 5400rpm ones are more robust.
And, now that I think, I wonder if they could make them with variable speed... speed up when the OS requests it or the usage is higher. But maybe they need a certain speed for the head to fly on the bed of air over the surface. I mean, maybe it is calculated for a certain speed.
Perhaps it's power usage, the 2.5" 5400 rpm in my laptop is powered from the IDE bus, where as my 2.3" 7200 rpm in hte main system has it's own power plug. And as far as speed issues are concerned, when the new solid state drives reach about 350G in size at an affordable price, i'll kick over to them. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org