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What is most important for gaming?
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Prolly the most useful question heehee. Gaming performance and HDD performance are not as tightly related as some OEMs would have you believe (of course I need to qualify that by saying that it depends on the rest of your system). With most games, the initial impact comes from loading levels and stuff ... and
that time will be reduced with faster drives hoever harddrive access
within a level will not recieve worthwile advantages from those uber high-rotational-speed drives help the sequential read and write operations ... a lot of the activity while playing a game is 'random'.
In general, a physically faster drive is nice but for most purposes, increasing the cache on the drive is an adequate subsitute (which is why the 16MB Maxtors can damn near keep up with the 10K Raptors)