topic Hard drive speed question in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.it/t5/pcs-accessories/hard-drive-speed-question/m-p/121472#M65315 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Does anyone know of any plans to bring out a Sony pro laptop with a fast/faster (7200 min) hard drive?<BR /><BR />Are these new flash drives much faster?<BR /><BR />Grateful for any advice....<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:15:59 GMT bladesvaio 2007-12-22T17:15:59Z Hard drive speed question https://community.sony.it/t5/pcs-accessories/hard-drive-speed-question/m-p/121472#M65315 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Does anyone know of any plans to bring out a Sony pro laptop with a fast/faster (7200 min) hard drive?<BR /><BR />Are these new flash drives much faster?<BR /><BR />Grateful for any advice....<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:15:59 GMT https://community.sony.it/t5/pcs-accessories/hard-drive-speed-question/m-p/121472#M65315 bladesvaio 2007-12-22T17:15:59Z Re: Hard drive speed question https://community.sony.it/t5/pcs-accessories/hard-drive-speed-question/m-p/121473#M65316 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi bladesvaio,<BR /><BR />I am not aware of any plans by Sony to introduce a 7200 rpm spindle speed hard drive to the notebook range – possibly due to power consumption?<BR /><BR />I have changed the drive in one of my older notebooks to a 7200 rpm (with noticeable increase in data access speed) but as I only use this on mains power I cannot really comment on loss of battery time.<BR /><BR />From what I understand flash drives are considerably faster but, at present, technology is limiting the size below that which would be acceptable for a modern computer.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:41:33 GMT https://community.sony.it/t5/pcs-accessories/hard-drive-speed-question/m-p/121473#M65316 rich912 2007-12-22T18:41:33Z Re: Hard drive speed question https://community.sony.it/t5/pcs-accessories/hard-drive-speed-question/m-p/121474#M65317 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks Rich<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:06:58 GMT https://community.sony.it/t5/pcs-accessories/hard-drive-speed-question/m-p/121474#M65317 bladesvaio 2007-12-22T19:06:58Z Re: Hard drive speed question https://community.sony.it/t5/pcs-accessories/hard-drive-speed-question/m-p/121475#M65318 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>you're welcome bladesvaio <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.it/html/@3191CA7235A406D833094BA2DD1CF2FF/images/smilies/011.png" alt=":slight_smile:" title=":slight_smile:" /><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:30:56 GMT https://community.sony.it/t5/pcs-accessories/hard-drive-speed-question/m-p/121475#M65318 rich912 2007-12-22T20:30:56Z