10,000 RPM Worth it?

[Mikethibodeau]

I can probably afford it, ,maybe 2 for space, but is it worth the money? What are the pros cons? I know nothing of HD's.

I plan on gamming a bit hardcorely.

 

[Funzo6785]

10000 rpms load alot faster than other hard drives. If you can afford two, get the 74 Gigabyte versions. There expensive, but saving and loading in games will be lightning fast. Also if you have an account with I-tunes or something, you could download a song probably in 15 seconds whereas it would take 40-45+ with a 7200 rpm hd. I'd say its worth it.

 

[Yeti]

I can probably afford it, ,maybe 2 for space, but is it worth the money?

If you have the money to burn, go for it.

2 for space

Eh, unless you're RAIDing them (not recommended my me) you only need one. Get a big 7200 for storage.

10000 rpms load alot faster than other hard drives. If you can afford two, get the 74 Gigabyte versions. There expensive, but saving and loading in games will be lightning fast.

I think thats a bit of an overstatement. You'll see more improvement in benchmarks than anything else.

Also if you have an account with I-tunes or something, you could download a song probably in 15 seconds whereas it would take 40-45+ with a 7200 rpm hd. I'd say its worth it.

Whoooo, that must be one fast internet connection to be at the same level as hard drive bandwidth.

 

[4W4K3]

Whoooo, that must be one fast internet connection to be at the same level as hard drive bandwidth.

yeah, i think that's a bit off as well. The speed of your HDD won't speed up your download/upload speed on the internet, that's a completely different bandwidth.

 

[Praetor]

10,000 RPM Worth it?

Probably not.

If you have the money to burn, go for it.

But why get a 74GB 10K drive when you can get a 200GB 16MB drive for the same price and a negligible performance drop (and hell the 16MB drive will perform better on random, large file xfers)

10000 rpms load alot faster than other hard drives

That's funny....

There expensive, but saving and loading in games will be lightning fast.

Saving and loading should be fast considering you'll be dealing with ... something like 1K-5MB

Also if you have an account with I-tunes or something, you could download a song probably in 15 seconds whereas it would take 40-45+ with a 7200 rpm hd. I'd say its worth it.

 

[Grimulus]

i'll just say no...'course i'd get raptors if i could afford them. my friend has a 10,000 WD hard drive...just a SATA and i'm not that impressed vs. my 7200 rpm drives.
i dunno...i'll be stickin' with 7200 for a good while.

 

[aramp1]

I've got a 74G 10K RPM Raptor that I keep all my programs on and a 200G 7200RPM Western Digital for stroage, etc. Both are SATA. I think you can tell the difference in how fast the 10K is, but it isn't by a whole lot. Considering the cost difference ($180 for the 10K/74G vs. $110 for the 7.2K/200G), if I had to make the choice again, I'd just buy two 200G and have some change left over.

 

[The_Other_One]

It will speed up your downloads? Um, riiiight...

I say just look at the access times of the drives. if you REALLY need the faster speeds, they will make the difference. I just glaced at a review on the Raptor and it says it has a 4.5ms access time O.O Um...Wow... Most other drives are around 7 to 9.

 

[xDarkWizardx]

Hell, if you got the money go for it. Get two and put em in RAID 0. Choosing between a 10,000 RPM and a 7,200 RPM is like choosing between a Ford Explorer and a Ferrari Enzo. One is cheaper and more practicle and ones a Ferrari

What is that picture Praetor posted?

 

[Praetor]

I say just look at the access times of the drives

Yes but access times are only part of the picture, there's also cached burst transfer rates and such (which mean much more than initial access time)

Get two and put em in RAID 0

For 99% of people, RAID0 isnt gonna give you a significant improvement in speed....

Choosing between a 10,000 RPM and a 7,200 RPM is like choosing between a Ford Explorer and a Ferrari Enzo. One is cheaper and more practicle and ones a Ferrari

Not quite. Actually off by quite a bit. Again, access times dont mean all that much unelss all you're looking for is say, a 100K file

 

[kof2000]

well i only bought 2 of the 250gb 7200rpm/16mb drives cuz it was on sale for 99usd each. if not i'd stay away and get 10k sata or 15k scsi drives. you're forgetting if you have money to burn might as well get scsi's 15k drives.