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  From: Greg  <grog@lemis.com>
  To  : Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 08:51:29 +0930

Re: Fast Laptop HDDs ( Was: Re: Dell Inpspiron 8200 and Linux? )

On Saturday,  4 May 2002 at 19:42:05 +0930, Andrew Reid wrote:
> On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 06:55:29PM +0930, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
>
>> Only thing that bugs me about notebooks is the fact that notebook HDs on the
>> whole are sloooooow.
>
> I seem to recall a 5400RPM HDD option being available for the Apple
> PowerBook G4, and as you'd expect, Apple thought it was pretty cool
> :-)

The big issue with laptop drives is not rotational latency or transfer
rate, it's head positioning time.  There's a good reason for that:
fast disks use more power.  I suspect that laptop disks will severely
lag behind desktop disks for quite some time to come.

Greg
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