5400 rpm

About this tag
Discussions tagged with 5400 rpm focus on hard drive performance, particularly in laptops. Users report slow boot times and seek advice on upgrading from 5400 rpm drives to faster 7200 rpm models for improved system responsiveness. Topics include cloning drives, compatibility, and troubleshooting startup delays. Specific drives like the Western Digital Scorpio Blue and Seagate Momentus series are mentioned. The tag also covers drive selection for storage and video archiving, with references to technologies like PWL and Silkstream. Overall, the content centers on real-world experiences with 5400 rpm drives in Windows environments.
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    Windows 10 Laptop very slow boot up

    So, i posted once about this a while back. But jow i am returning to it. So it took 23 monutes to boot 2 days ago. Hp pavilion (updated drivers) 1tb 5400 rpm drive 12gb ram Amd quad core cpu Win 10 (originally 8.1 came on it) I ran a procmon with boot log enabled. Once it booted, it is so far...
    • LT72884
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    • 12gb ram 1tb 5400 rpm amd boot log drivers hard drive hp pavilion laptop performance procmon quad core slow boot slow startup tapatalk tech support troubleshooting upgrade user experience windows 10
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support

  2. Windows 7 WD's PWL & Silkstream technologies

    The prices have come down to the point that I'm thinking of buying another 3TB hard drive for video archiving. I was thinking of the regular 5400 RPM green label drive, which is what I already have several of, but looking at the description of the WD30EURS, something caught my eye...Silkstream...
    • seekermeister
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    • 3tb 5400 rpm archiving av products compatibility data transfer efficiency hard drive intellipark intelliseek performance power consumption pwl technology silkstream static files storage streaming video capture video encoding western digital
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Starting Up Slow about 2-5 minutes to startup

    Hi, everyone.. i am a newbie here. and i wish to ask experts here to help me. i have a Notebook Asus N82 and i change my harddisk (5400rpm 640Gb) to 320Gb 7200rpm. I using Seagate hd to clone all files. and boot... it works normally except starting up when windows flag appear.. it will takes...
    • pika1988
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    • 5400 rpm 7200rpm asus n82 boot time clean install clone disk issues error hard drive notebook ntbtlog operating system performance seagate slow boot startup troubleshooting upgrade windows 7 windows flag
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Slave Sata HDD cant be found in Win7, Laptop.

    Hey guys, Kinda new to windows 7. I've tried to install a slave sata hard drive in my machine. Im running an Asus G50 laptop. It has a slave drive bay and all and is being found in the bios but not in windows. It's not being found via diskmgmt.msc either. The hard drive is a 160 gig Seagate...
    • Maros
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    • 160gb 5400 rpm 5400.3 asus bios compatibility disk management external storage hard drive hdd laptop sata seagate slave drive storage tech support windows 7
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Laptop HDD Replacement Choice

    Hey Guys, just trying to get some info. I need to change a HDD in a Vaio VGN-N130G The system came originally with a 80GB with a 1.6GHz processor I ve narrowed down the HDD to the following 2: ( to be honest mostly due to budged restraints!!) Western Digital Scorpio Blue (WD1600BEVT)...
    • Bad.hair.spray
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    • 5400 rpm 7200rpm cooling issues hdd replacement laptop performance seagate storage upgrade vaio western digital
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: General Computing