Hard drive or hard disk is a storage part of our gamer laptop. Two things we should consider about hard drive is capacity and speed. Most gamers choose 7200rpm hard drives as these will be 33% faster than 4200rpm hard drive. Also gamer laptop should have SATA Hard Drives (Serial ATA) which gives a higher performance than PATA (Parallel ATA), especially for high bandwidth applications such as multi-player games. Solid State Drives (SSD) probably the future of gamer laptop but these now are very expensive. SSDs have no moving parts so they are considered more reliable than an ordinary hard drive with movable parts that can crash. For the capacity of the hard drive, recent gamer laptop are now sporting two or more hard drives which can offer up to a Terabyte of storage!

Gamer Laptop Should Use SATA Hard Drive

SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Architecture) was developed by a group of companies including Seagate, Intel, Maxtor, Dell and others. SATA transmit data in a serially as opposed to PATA or Parallel ATA which is commonly referred to as an IDE hard drive. Serial ATA hard drive use less power, which is best for gamer laptop. They are also more advanced than PATA hard drive which use multipe streams of data. But Serial Technology carries data in a single stream and is not limited to a particular clock speed, Serial transfers data packets almost 30 times faster than parallel!