As always there are little niggling differences that can be a pro or con for either. But spindle speed is definitely the biggest deciding factor.
SATA2 can achieve higher burst speeds due to the higher bandwidth of the interface + caching. There is an edge in performance when transferring small blocks of data. Overall a 10k or 15k rpm drive should definitely out win out over a 7200rpm drive regardless of the interface. The main idea is that sustained transfers from all conventional hard disks aren't capable of even saturating the slower interfaces much less the faster ones. -Tharin O. --- James Maki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a difinitive answer to the question of > performance between a RAID0 > array of 10,000 rpm 36 GB Raptors vs single 7200 rpm > SATA 2 drive for the > OS? I am looking at a re-install of Windows XP Pro > in the future and am > looking at my options. Both would be on SATA 2 mobo > ports. > > Thanks, > > Jim Maki > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
