7200 drive in ibook G4

[hywyn]

Hi!
I need to upgrade my laptop and am seeking advice on 7200 drives in ibook G4's (1gig, 512Kb cache) particularly the Seagate Momentus 8Mbyte cache 100 gig drive.

I know one would expect performance to increase, but since the CPU and memory subsystems also work harder I wonder if the internal structure of an ibook is capable of dealing with it.

I presume the recent generation of HD's are more efficient and so I'm trusting that it won't overheat while doing simple tracking, which brings me to an important one, i.e. how quiet are these drives?

Also, how much Is the 8mb buffer a factor? I read a report from someonoe who had the same model ibook as I with an Hitachi 7200mb (but 2mbyte cache) who had an extra 15% Power consumption, significantly better performance but a much warmer ibook,

An interesting test can be found here:
http://www.barefeats.com/hard56.html

I'm trying to hold off buying a Powerbook to see what the new year brings, so any advice to any one of these questions will be appreciated!

Steve

[theblue1]

That looks pretty promising. I guess it should be noted that the writer expected the Seagate to run a bit hotter than their 5400. It looked pretty good against the Travelstar, about 20% faster on sustained transfer, and maybe around 10% faster random writes.