Your Laptop Harddrive - Bigger is Better
Standard notebook computer hard drives spin 5400 times a minute (5400 rpm). You can upgrade to laptop harddrives that spin at 7200 rpm. This is the standard on desktop computers. You will be able to find files faster, but it uses more power and generates more heat. Notebook hard drives are already the hottest components in your laptop computers. In my judgment, a 7200 rpm harddrive costs more than it is worth to most people. Besides size, the other choice you can make for your laptop is a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) hard drive. It is what it sounds like, a group of disks with everything stored in more than one place.The theory is that all the disks won't break at once so you won't loose your files before you can replace the faulty disk. Notebook computer hard drives of this type are expensive and won't fit into many laptop computers. The problems with power and heat are even greater than with 7200 rpm disks. You can write your files to a CD or DVD and keep that in a safe place or get an external hard drive to store files you are concerned about. I would do that even with RAID disk. To give you a perspective on the size you might want, I have about 3500 songs as mp3 files in my music library on my computer. All the Metallica (US releases) CDs are ripped at a bit rate that takes more than twice the space of the standard 128 Kbps files. All this music takes up about 13.5 gigabytes of storage on my hard drive. Still, I'd suggest that you buy the largest harddrive you feel you can afford. Files expand to exceed the available space. return from laptop harddrive to laptop parts
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