7,200 or 10,000 hdd

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robina_80

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wat spindle spped do u think is adequite coz im not running a business or anythink im just a home user office games downloading all dat so wot speed do u think is adequite
 
7200 is fine for business... a lot of businesses use 5400 for very specific reasons and other uses 15K drives for yet other reasons. 7200 is plenty fine for damn near everyone
 
Praetor said:
7200 is fine for business... a lot of businesses use 5400 for very specific reasons and other uses 15K drives for yet other reasons. 7200 is plenty fine for damn near everyone
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id have to agree, the 10000rpm ones are too dear compared to the 7200's
not sure how much truth is in this but APPARENTLY 2 raided raptors dont offer THAT much performance as opposed to 2 raided 7200 seagates or whatever

as for those sci? hard drives, dont even bother...
 
as for those sci? hard drives, dont even bother...
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???? why not??! Speed, redundnacy, lack-of-system-gets-crippled-when-you-put-a-CD-in-the-drive, independent piping, 16/32MB cache ....
 
Praetor said:
???? why not??! Speed, redundnacy, lack-of-system-gets-crippled-when-you-put-a-CD-in-the-drive, independent piping, 16/32MB cache ....
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i mean more regarding the sheer price of the things, utterly ridiculous for your average computer user is what im saying, good if you have the money but...
 
Yes im aware but a couple notes (for the record, i'm not so hot for SATA, more of an oldschool SCSI fan):
- 16MB SATA drives cost a premium compared even within SATA drives, 16MB SCSI drives cost relatively the same ... the 32MB SCSIs are a different story
- You can controllers with memory on them (think of it like the way L2 is to the CPU)..... except there are controllers with 128MB on then (maybe more too)
- Of course for the average user who maybe uses their computer a couple of hours a day ... 2MB, 8MB, 16MB ... they wont be able to tell that the difference is huge or anything
 
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