Can anyone confirm that the 1TB HDD included is 7200 RPM version not 5700 RPM ?
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It is a 5400RPM, it looks incorrectly listed as 7200RPM. While 7200RPM is always preferred, a 5400RPM wont be too bad since its main use is for storage. The 2x mSATA in RAID is where your OS and programs should be installed and you'll get extremely fast speeds from those.
47710
apparently it depends on the drive, i have 2 new WD 4TB green drives and it will only see 1.8TB on either. i also tried anew WD 1TB Blue 7200rpm drive and it won't see it at all but it will see a WD 1TB green 5400 rpm drive.
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2.4GHz, 16GB DDR3, 1TB (5400 RPM) Hybrid Disk Drive 1TB (5400 RPM) Serial ATA hard disk drive
1884273
5400 rpm- a weak point for this laptop. However, since this laptop supports up to two 2.5" drives, I recommend getting a decent solid state drive to use as the primary drive and delegate this 1TB drive to storage only.
1128361
You're right, I did get the 5400 rpm unit. I bought it in April and when I click on the link for the item I bought, it goes directly to the 7200 rpm unit for $98.45.But, the 5400 does just fine and I don't notice it any slower than my older 500 mb, 7200 rpm unit it replaced. WD Blue 1 TB Mobile Hard Drive: 2.5 Inch, 5400 RPM, SATA II, 8 MB Cache (WD10JPVT) (Old Model)
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http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1704I quote: "We can only guarantee drive capacity. We cannot guarantee a particular internal hard drive model, data interface, rotational speed, or cache size in the external hard drive enclosure."So it's probably 5400 RPM (the cheaper option).
1947010
I just finished installing this 1TB and it worked like a charm... 828GB free out of 931GB. I'll update this if any thing changes...
1568457
The HDD speed doesn't matter as this product will eventually corrupt the drive.(5400 rpm IIRC)
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Given that there are conflicting answers to this question on Amazon, and I really wanted to know before purchasing a drive, I contacted Seagate. Here's their response: " Unfortunately, part of the information is not provided at all. The RPM of our Expansion drives are not a provided specification, meaning the unit can run from 5400 RPMs to 7200 RPMs. We have no way to know which is it. It is not a guaranteed specification." So, it's a crap shoot. And it matters.
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It shows up as two physical drives 0 and 1 at 1 TB ea, further partitioned into 500 GB ea C-D-E-F. Haven't pulled it apart to see if in fact they are separate drives. 100% screaming machine but the drives are probably 75% screaming.
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It uses a 7200 RPM drive. Version 1 used a 5900 RPM drive. Both are SATA III with 64MB cache.
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The unit I receive was a re-fab with a 5400 rpm western digital hdd. I hope that helps.
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It's 5400RPM, so access times are "slower" than a 7200RPM drive. It has an 8meg cache vs. a 16m cache. I'd venture to say that neither of these are noticeable to the typical user. It's hot-pluggable SATA II, which are current capabilities. The 7200RPM/16m version is only about $5 more.
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Hi,I do not have idea about that. I need to make a research for that. However I advise you not to buy used, refurbished HDD from amazon. I bought two. one was noisy and mother board did not detect a HDD. another was working but very very slow. so both of them was waste of money for me.
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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.
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sure be ok. it is ok when i use the 1Tb. but it is better that you check with the Seagate service team
2011967
You should email them. The Red drives that they put in these units are not 7200RPM.