Hard drives: 7200rpm vs 10,000rpm?

Post by **Canis** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:32 pm

Is it worth it?

Post by **Tsakali_** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:44 pm

well, haven't the disks in new hardrives keep getting smaller?

they must have because the same exterior dimentions of a standard IDE HD stays the same yet the capasities are getting bigger.

I dunno if the disk layers are getting more compact or if the sectors on the disks themeselves got more compact, I'd say the rpm speed should be irrelevant from one disk to the other in that case

Post by **Deathshroud** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:51 pm

Tsakali_ wrote:well, haven't the disks in new hardrives keep getting smaller?

they must have because the same exterior dimentions of a standard IDE HD stays the same yet the capasities are getting bigger.

I dunno if the disk layers are getting more compact or if the sectors on the disks themeselves got more compact, I'd say the rpm speed should be irrelevant from one disk to the other in that case

What the hell?

Anyways, the 10,000 RPM HDD will be noticebly faster when making file transfers, and loading up games and large apps, but for every day use a 7,200 is perfectly fine.

EDIT: Check out SATA instead of IDE. Lots more bandwidth and the small cables will make less clutter and better airflow in your case.

Post by **mrd** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:54 pm

Yeah, more RPMS more or less directly correlates to faster seek times.

Post by **tnf** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:54 pm

I have a SATA drive now. Love those small cables.

Post by **seremtan** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:18 pm

SATA = :icon14:

now if only the optical drives didn't use fat ribbon cables

Post by **dnoyc** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:28 pm

Canis wrote:Is it worth it?

yes

Post by **Kills On Site** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 7:45 pm

I have a 10,000 RPM WD Raptor, 74GB, in my other rig and it is a seriously noticable difference, I used a 7,200 RPM drive in it before I got the Raptor so that is a noticable difference in the same system. You load maps much faster, Photoshop, Trillian and just about any other program loads much quicker.

Post by **Foo** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 7:49 pm

I've got a striped pair of 7k maxtors in my PC, and yeah, the general benefits to be had from faster read/write on your storage is noticeable.

Quake loads faster, the pc loads quicker, things are more responsive...

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 7:57 pm

As RPM's go up and hard drives get bigger, you start getting more 'error corrections(?)' happening.

Post by **Turbine** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 8:15 pm

Yeah, the 10,000RPM gives you mutch faster load times.

Post by **mjrpes** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 8:58 pm

I have a PC built to be as silent as possible, so 10,000 RPM drives are out of the question.

Post by **ajerara** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:32 pm

There's a good article in CPU mag this month about SATA 2.5, they benchmark a bunch of those drives with a WD Raptor 10,000rpm drive.

Post by **netrex** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 1:29 am

I switched from a normal 7200RPM drive to a Raptor and there was quite the difference in responsiveness from the PC. Now I run 2xRaptors in RAID0, and it's even better, but not that big a difference as from 7200 to 10000. Write speed is awsome though. Which is why I have it.

Post by **dnoyc** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:14 am

i too have 2xraptors in raid 0, and it is in fact awesome.

Post by **Dave** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:51 am

mjrpes wrote:I have a PC built to be as silent as possible, so 10,000 RPM drives are out of the question.

They really aren't that loud... but then the really aren't noticeably faster than your average 7200 RPM drive either

Hard drives: 7200rpm vs 10,000rpm?

Hard drives: 7200rpm vs 10,000rpm?

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