For reads yes. For writes they can be slower.
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 4:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Which is faster ? WD Raptors are expensive. If OP is investigating the use of 10K RPM SATA disks, then they should look at buying SSDs. For speed, SSDs blow any mechanical drive out of the water. Cheers Ken From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, 1 March 2010 8:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Which is faster ? Tested doing what? There are only some very specific workloads where the performance difference will be noticeable. Video streaming and editing is a very different workload from manipulating lots of small, randomly distributed files. I'd favor cost rather than theoretical performance here, barring other information. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone _____ From: "HELP_PC" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:25:47 +0100 To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> Subject: Which is faster ? How can I decide if a Hard disk WD 10000 rpm 16 mb cache will perform better than a WD 7200 rpm with 64mb cache Looking fore somebody that already tested TIA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
