• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    512GB Seagate HDD 5400 RPM

    Sounds like its written by someone that have never owned a Core 2 Duo, as I remember the disk sizes of that time was 500GB, 750GB and 1000GB at 7200 RPM, I think 5400 RPM is slow and mostly used on 2.5" or 5.25" disks.

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      4 months ago

      The computer actually came with an SSD, they swapped it because they appreciate the time to think between one operation and the next

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        The latest the CPU could’ve come out is around the time Barack Obama became a household name, at which point 64GB would’ve been a really big and expensive SSD. They probably wanted space

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        As I remember around 2007, 5400 RPM was frowned upon in builds.

        The disks I have from that time is a WD RE2 (very noisy 7200 RPM) and a few WD Green’s (I think they are slower than 5400 RPM just to mess with my arguments).