Hard Drive for performance (help)

leodhas

New Member
Hello, my current hard drive runs at 7200 rpm and I use my desktop to run Audio recording/producing software on (Ableton 8 live) as I have a home studio.

I am running XP service pack 2 on the system as I love xp, it is easy to use and has always worked fine for me. The PC is not online as I use it solely for running the above software.

My question is, if I replaced the existing hard drive for one that runs on 10,000 rpm or even 15,000 rpm, will I achieve better performance, a faster performance with my software?

I do not want to spend a fortune and can use a hard drive with as little as 40gb storage as long as I could get the better performance off a higher rpm drive. Can anyone help or even suggest a drive?


Thank You,

Louie.
 

jevery

Active Member
A faster hard drive will only decrease the time waiting for applications to load, for instance a solid state disk will significantly speed up windows boot times and run disk intensive applications like a virus scan much faster, but it will not decrease the time required to render graphics like altering photos or calculations in a database - that is dependent on the power of your CPU. Likewise high framerates in game play are dependent on the power of your graphics card, and to a lesser extent your CPU as well. That's why it's important to achieve a balance between your CPU and your GPU and to feed them both with adequate power and cooling capacity.
 

pjtrucker

New Member
Hello leodhas,

jevery is right. HDD's rpm only increases the ability to load applications much faster compared to a 7200rpm. Anyways, can you tell us also your computer specifications? In this way, we can also justify on the reasons with regards to the performances of your applications.

Thanks,
 
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