Faster iBook Performance?

macasaurusmacasaurus
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
If I were to use an external firewire hardrive that is running at 7200RPM, would I expect a huge difference in the iBook's performance if I were to boot from that external firewire hardrive. I have a 700Mhz iBook, 640MB of Ram with 20GB of HD space(not really sure how fast the RPM is on this, but I think it's somewhere below 5400).

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    mountainyeti42mountainyeti42 Posts: 31member
    I have exactly the same computer, and I have a 7200 RPM external firewire drive which is significantly faster than the internal drive. I used Xbench 1.0, the "Disk Text" on both drives. Internal: 42.01, external: 65.99. The external drive scores 1.57 times the internal drive. I don't boot of the external drive, but playing Warcraft III off of it is noticeably faster than off the internal drive.
  • Reply 2 of 5
    macasaurusmacasaurus Posts: 243member
    thanks
  • Reply 3 of 5
    proud ibook owner 2k2proud ibook owner 2k2 Posts: 1,011member
    hm so if i move all my vital files over to an ext drive then my iBook would perform better?
  • Reply 4 of 5
    dave marshdave marsh Posts: 349member
    Booting off the external 7200 RPM drive also works just fine. That's how I do backups and regular disk maintenance. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />



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  • Reply 5 of 5
    drewpropsdrewprops Posts: 2,321member
    Ditto.



    Saving to my external 7200 drive is like a lightning strike compared to saving to the internal drive.



    KA-POW!
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