how do you find out the speed of your hard drive?

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macasaurusmacasaurus
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
When i shipped my iBook back to apple because my hard drive failed, they accidently replaced it with a 40GB hard drive, instead of a 20GB. Anyway, I was wondering if the speed of the hard drive was 4200RPM or 5400RPM. I doubt it's 5400RPM, but I thought it would be cool to know for sure.



Btw, I have told apple care of their mistake and they told me to just keep it.

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  • Reply 1 of 9
    dmband0026dmband0026 Posts: 2,345member
    It's a 4200. New iBooks don't even come with 5400s.



    As far as actually checking the speed, I'm not sure. I looked around to try and find the speed of my drive (I know it's a 7200rpm), but I couldn't actually find it anywhere.
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  • Reply 2 of 9
    regreg Posts: 832member
    Go into system porfile. Hardware - ATA. Top section will tell you what devices you have. Bottom section gives info on what you high light in the top section. For my PB I have a TOSHIBA MK6021GAS. Copy your model, google and pick any site to get your info.



    reg
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  • Reply 3 of 9
    macasaurusmacasaurus Posts: 243member
    thx. found out it was 4200RPM.
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  • Reply 4 of 9
    mattjohndrowmattjohndrow Posts: 1,618member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by reg

    Go into system porfile. Hardware - ATA. Top section will tell you what devices you have. Bottom section gives info on what you high light in the top section. For my PB I have a TOSHIBA MK6021GAS. Copy your model, google and pick any site to get your info.



    reg



    nice, i got a 7200rpm
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  • Reply 5 of 9
    gsfmarkgsfmark Posts: 210member
    ain't google the best?! i have two 7200 rpm 60 gig drives in my G4 tower... and then an external 7200 rpm 160 gig...
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  • Reply 6 of 9
    mattjohndrowmattjohndrow Posts: 1,618member
    you have too much storage space, 280 GBs, give some to me, i already have 2 120s filled, come on, gimme some o that!
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  • Reply 7 of 9
    shetlineshetline Posts: 4,695member
    1) Get into your car with your iBook.

    2) Race up and down your local streets at high speed, preferably making lots of tire squealing noise, until pulled over by a cop.

    3) Ask the cop how fast you (and your drive) were going.
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  • Reply 8 of 9
    gsfmarkgsfmark Posts: 210member
    well the 120 internal was all I used to have, for video work etc, but then for my major I was required to get an external FW drive, at least 80 gigs... School recommended a 120 though, for 200 bucks.



    I found a LaCie one with student discount that was 160 gb for 50 bucks less than the 120 gb school wanted me to buy... So i mean, i think out of my 280, i have 100 or 120 free...
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  • Reply 9 of 9
    mattjohndrowmattjohndrow Posts: 1,618member
    shetline, that was awesome!!!!!!!



    yeah, i'm thinking about getting a "Big Disk", or at least another 250
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