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3600 RPM HDD?



Rotational speed of 3600 RPM was common in the 1980s. And the size of HDDs with 3600 RPM speed were really small compared to today. We're talking partially less than 1 GB of storage. There were HDDs with that RPM with more storage but we're only talking about 80 GB.

Even if your device is 10 years old you are still most likely to have a 5400 RPM HDD. Even today a lot of notebooks still have 5400 RPM 2.5" HDDs to save costs at the price of performance.

3600 RPM HDDs are dead and outdated due to their age. The only ones that are being still sold are very old stock or items for a tech museum.

Like this one:
https://www.ebay.de/itm/HITACHI-DK515C-7...2475496036

Whoops. I actually forgot which RPM my HDD is. The current HDD in the market is 7200rpm, so I think it probably half of it, so I say 3600rpm . Just checked and can confirm it's 5400rpm, apologies . It still run Windows 10 OK even considering it's an 8 years old laptop, never get any kind service or anything. I have downgraded to Windows 7, but it's like nothing different. Most application cannot run in Windows 7 too right now and the speed is not so fast, just OK. So I decided to get back to Windows 10 after taking using Windows 7 for a month or two.