Change the HD of my Vaio

[JS_Bach]

Hello everybody!
It's my first post here and this is a really important matter to me.

I bought my Vaio recently (FS215S) and I urgently need to change its hard drive. The current hard drive (4200 rpm) is very slow for the purpose I want it (music production which means multiple audio tracks(up to 100) running at once. So I want to install a new hard drive working at 7200 rpm. I was thinking of the Hitachi ones but I am worried about two things:

Will it be compatible with my Vaio?
How will I restore the operating system originally found in my Vaio if the new Hard drive is empty(I have created the recovery DVD's for my Vaio however I don't know if they will work in an empty hard drive.

Can you help me?This thing is very important for my job until I sort this out I cannot actually make use of my laptop:smileycry:

Thanx in advance for any reply!

[kee-lo_]

I've had no speed problems

[stephanius]

I have such a hard disk and I find it really handy, easy to share data amongst the two VAIOs I have.


How about its speed then?Will it have equivalent performance to an internall 7200rpm hard drive?

If you use an external harddrive its speed will be rather irrelevant. USB Hi-speed is limited to a theoretical maximum of 60MB/s. The actual net transfer rate is lower though, and therefore the average harddrive should have no problem delivering that much throughput.

A 7200rpm HDD makes sense only when you use it as a system drive, so the added seek and transfer speed can improve your XP performance.

The recovery disc will work fine on an completely blank HDD.