On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 10:23 PM, Jim Raper wrote:
> Is there any reason not to
> purchase 7200 speed hard drives?
If thru-put , data transfer speed is your thing , go for the 7200RPM
My 7200 RPM drive "blew away" my old 5400 RPM drive( which BTW was
moved to my on-going junk box !)
From a technical standpoint, here are some thru-put, transfer speed
test measurements using
HD Speed Tools Test Suite , QuickBench (BTW my version is also OSX
compatible)
I had two each HD's connected to an PCI SIG Ultra ATA 133/100 IDE
Controller;
--The stock, 5400 RPM ,12GB , Quantum that was shipped with my B&W
--An IBM ,7200 RPM ,60GXP, 40GB
Summary
Transfer Size 1 MByte
5400 RPM
Sequential Read 10.4 MByte/sec
Sequential Write 8.1 MByte/sec
Random Read 9.4 MByte/sec
Random Write 8.0 MByte/sec
7200 RPM
Sequential Read 35.9 MByte/sec
Sequential Write 40.2 MByte/sec
Random Read 29.5 MByte/sec
Random Write 20.6 MByte/sec
As you can see, a significant improvement in transfer speed ; about at
least three times faster can be expected
Albert
B&W Yosemite V1 // XLR8 G4 500/ 1MB ZIF // 1024MB RAM
PCI Radeon 7000 driving two Monitors (VGA +Apple Multican)
PCI SIG Ultra 133/100 IDE Controller-IBM 60GXP 40GB
PCI Adaptec 4300 PCI- FW Driver
OS X.2.3 ,Native
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