HDD 5400 RPM & 16 GB RAM vs 7200 RPM & 8 GB RAM

Blondie21 · Feb 22, 2015

All else equal, what is better?

1 TB HDD with 5400 RPM and 16 GB RAM
or 1 TB HDD with 7200 RPM and 8 GB RAM

(If I buy a laptop with option 2, then I would be willing to pay for an extra 8 GB RAM if that would be possible for the laptop in question in my specific price tag range, but that's probably not possible in my case, therefore this question.)

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/www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2547823/laptop-based-performance-1000-1300-week-vacation-york.html

EDIT: I'll be using the HDD as the secondary drive and a 256 GB SSD as the primair/boot drive

Motoxyogi · Feb 22, 2015

Personally I'd go with the faster hard drive over more memory.

8GB of RAM is about the norm for modern systems and unless you're using heavy editing software or something, I doubt you'd even max out 8GB.

You would definitely notice the difference between a 7200rpm and a 5400rpm HDD. Assuming everything else is the same the 7200rpm hard drive will allow your laptop to respond quicker to commands

Motoxyogi · Feb 23, 2015

True. SSD's are pretty much the be all and end all of storage devices.

But they are still a pricey option and I'm not so sure about the powersaving features of them. I didn't notice much, if any difference when I swapped out my old laptops 7200rpm drive for a SSD. But it's a power hungry beast in the 1st place so your mileage may vary.

Blondie21 · Feb 23, 2015

Thank you all for the replies.

EDIT: I'll be using the HDD as the secondary drive and a 256 GB SSD as the primair/boot drive

Blondie21 · Feb 24, 2015

Though, there is a serious downside of 7.2k rpm HDD. It eats up more juice most of the time [significantly, about 10-40 minutes of notebook runtime] + it's noisy sometimes and also heats up significantly more.
SSD all over...

My current winner is: http

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Please give your opinion in: http

/www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2547823/laptop-based-performance-1000-1300-week-vacation-york.html

I'm still not sure if the upgraded ASUS recommended by Walter would eb a better choice and if there exists a better laptop for my budget.

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