Yes. However, if in a laptop, you will have to make sure that the drive does not output too much heat. This could cause the computer to overheat and the drive to malfunction if the cooling system is not adequate.
In a raid? Yes.
By mashing them together to create a 12600 rpm drive? No.
7200rpm will provide faster read and write speed.
Common current values are 5400 rpm, 7200 rpm, and 10000 rpm. However, these are not the only possible values.
Any name brand hard drive is good. The fastest preforming notebok harddrives are the 7200rpm with 8mb cache. The highest capacity harddrives would be 5400rpm which limit at 320 gigabytes most all newer 5400rpm drives have 8mb as well. For performance you want to look for the lowest seek, time as well as a large cache, and the fastest supported interface by your Thinkpad.
This Netbook comes with 160GB SATA 5400RPM Hard Drive.
7200rpm
Both are good but the 500 GB is better.
the harddrive is good but a bit small
Depending on your computer's BIOS, it might support or not a 7200RPM hard disk drive. Usually a Pentium 3 should support 7200RPM hard disks. I personally own a 800MHz Pentium 3 with a 160GB ATA hard drive and it worked without updating the BIOS(last updated in February 2000). So, a Pentium 3 should support newer hard drives but make sure your BIOS is at least from 1999 or 2000 since I don't think a 1995 or 1996 BIOS can handle a 7200RPM hard drive.
There is only 1 thing to upgrade on a Xbox, that is the hard drive.
maybe
buy a new hard drive?
Hard drive speeds of 7200rpm allow for it to read/write/copy data faster, but this doesn't necessarily mean it will open programs faster. If you want to run programs faster, upgrade your computer's RAM (random access memory or usually just called memory).