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I've recently upgraded my laptop's internal hard drive from a 160GB to 1TB drive. I cloned the drive, then installed it. The general system performance seems appreciably slower. In particular application launches seem to take much longer. Is this possible, or am I just expecting too much from the new drive?
It's running a Macbook Pro which is a couple of years old. Any ideas?
160 GB 7MB cache 5400 rpm NCQ (Hitachi HTS545016B9SA02) -- original drive
1 TB 8MB cache 5400 rpm SATA300 NCQ (Western Digital WD10TPVT-00HT5T0)
Sisoftware links:
The spindle speed is slower. Also, look at the bottom of this link: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/1tb_wd_scorpio_in_macs.html
– None – 2011-02-10T06:44:21.710@Randolf Potter - thanks for the link, but I can't find any info about spindle speed on that page... Surely my WD can't be slower than 5400rpm? – aaaidan – 2011-02-12T05:48:05.297