Hard drive Speed

[jjohnston]

I am looking at building my own Gaming computer. I am deciding on a HDD. I am pretty sure I'm going to go SATA but don't know what RPM. 7200 or 10k. the 10k has a seek time of 5.2msec and the 7200 seek time is <9.5msec. Any suggestions? the rest of my computer will be 3.0ghz P4 with HT, 2x512mb 400mhz DDR Memory, the new Nvidia 6800 Graphics card. SoundBlaster Audigy sound. Any suggestions?

 

[jjohnston]

any one... any one... Bueller... Bueller...

 

[Ace1627]

Doesn't really matter. All really on how much you want to spend. You won't notice any difference between the 7200 and 10000 if you are just playing games. Hope this helps.

 

[kof2000]

with a 10,000 rpm drive you'll install xp in around 10minutes. u will notice the difference. if you want best stuffs go with a scsi 15,000rpm drive.

 

[4W4K3]

i've used a 7200RPM drive for almost 2 yrs now. plenty fast enough for me. it doesnt matter in the slightest how fast XP installs to me, it's not like i do it every week. but if that kind of stuff matters to you, a 10K-15K RPM will be very fast (and also a nice chunk out of your wallet.)

 

[kof2000]

7200rpm is okay for storage for me but for a boot drive i use 10k-15k since the os and all the apps and settings are running from that drive i'll want the faster drive installed stuff there.

 

[Praetor]

with a 10,000 rpm drive you'll install xp in around 10minutes.

Only if you spend the time to copy the CD to the HDD before hand. Having a faster drive wont matter jack if you install via CD.