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From: "Rich Koziol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: HDDs
Is there any reason to prefer or disparage 7200 rpm or 10000 rpm?
Faster spin, faster data access. Maybe more heat. There have been
few drives that turned at 10K - never owned one.
A few technicians responded to my bragging about installing 7200 RPM hard
drives in my custom built computers and comparing mine to the low end name
brand computers with 5400 RPM hard drives. They told me that if I was aiming
for providing the best I would be installing 10000 RPM hard drives.
Back when the first Intel Pentium came out (the 60 MHz with the math
coprocessor fault) the best was the norm and there was not lots of variety.
Now the upper class (the P4 compared to the Celeron) comes in a large
variety and so does the economy model. Now there are over 30 different Intel
P4 CPU's.
My point here is you can go with quality and performance and not go all the
way to the top. It is said that Intel usually beats out AMD by providing a
high end performer that is cost prohibitive. I remember when the standard
Intel P4 I installed was only 633 MHz because the 933 MHz was cost
prohibitive. For a true comparison you have to compare two affordable CPU's.
Affordable usually has to be defined further, premium and economy.
Although I did go to SATA hard drives, I have seen no reason to go beyond
7200 RPM, yet. I abandoned Western Digitals for Seagate since Seagate has a
5 year warranty compared to the Western Digital.
If I were building high end gaming computers I would have to use a
completely different line of components that include a hard drive faster
than 7200 RPM. Since I am building heavy duty workhorses for home use, at
this time 7200 RPM SATA hard drives are the affordable standard. I am sure
that will change with time.
In order to answer your question, first you have to identify the tasks you
expect your computer to perform, ultra high performance such as in gaming or
high performance such as in home use. Then you can select your components. I
can honestly say I have seen no reason in the past 5 years to use 5400 RPM
hard drives other than to pad a profit margin.
Experience tells me how well a 7200 RPM hard drive performs compared to a
5400 RPM hard drive. I used a customer's 5400 RPM hard drive in a build.
Later that customer wanted a new hard drive and I installed a 7200 RPM
drive. With that being the only hardware change, the computer performed much
faster.
Chuck
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