Is there a 7200 RPM USB Hard drive?

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WoodyS

I am told I need a fast hard drive for a particular application on my Windows 7 machine. 7200 RPM is suggested. Does anyone make a fast USB 7200 RPM hard drive?

Answer
Virtually all 3,5ich hard drives for desktop systems are 7200RPM. The fastest consumer "internal" desktop models use 10000RPM. "Raptors"

Laptops either use slower 5400RPM 2.5 inch disks or some now have 7200RPM also.

Some USB external drives are 7200RPM and some [particularly portable external drives for laptops with no external power supply] are 5400RPM. It is always clearly marked on the packaging.

The WesternDigital MyBook series are all 7200RPM and are very good performance and good value too. Plenty of different sizes [500GB up to 3TB] and both USB 2 and faster USB 3 models if your system supports USB 3. See here: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/external/desktop/

why wont my old HDD show up in windows 7?

Brandon E

I have a home built PC. It's ran great for years. Every now and again I would just upgrade HDDs whenever my current one began to fill. Recently I have been running on a 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda of which my girlfriend filled to capacity (professional Photography). Before I could afford the new drive I purchased (a 3TB Seagate drive), She caused my version of windows 7 to crash.

So I figured ok it'll be as easy as installing windows on my new drive and extracting all of the old files onto my new drive. Installed windows and then booted up. went to my computer and the 1.5TB doesnt show. Odd seeing as it has appeared in the bios. Most topics on this refer to the extra drive as being new and tells everyone to format the new drive with a partition. not an option for me.

I am currently in the process of attempting to repair the old windows 7 startup with no luck. Currently when trying to boot windows 7 on the old drive it continues past the post and then displays only a flashing underscore "_". not exactly helpful.

Additional details:
No other Hardware Changes had been made prior to the system crash. I had upgraded system components a few months earlier with no issues.

I have also attempted changing SATA cables with working ones and no changes.

I also changed to other known working hard drives. another 1TB drive, no luck. a 250GB drive from a portable hard drive enclosure(extracted and inserted internally like the other drives in same conditions) this hard drive showed up correctly.

My attempt to correct this situation is becoming increasingly frustrating, and it doesnt help that I have legos on my desk to play with... If anyone has any helpful insight I would appreciate it greatly!
*Further working on the system seems to have revealed my hard disk has died. It showed up a few times in bios however I cannot replicate the result anymore. It seems I may need to turn towards recovery services for this one...

Answer
If none of these suggestions in this link work I would suggest running a hard drive health tester.
Every hard drive maker has one on their website or try Seagate. THey have one that you can run from windows or a bootable cd/usb.
Good luck

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