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beriah

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is it just me or is on everyone signature it says 7200rpm, i want to know what that means and what are the advantages in having a faster hard drive.
 
7200rpm is the standard rpm of modern HDDs. RPM=Revolutions Per Minute. There are HDDs that have 10,000rpm but those are pretty much just a waste of money since the capacity is smaller and the performance boost isn't noticeable.
 
And it's not everyone's hard drives. Both of mine are just 5400 rpm; my old backup Pentium I box has 4500 rpm.
Tom
 
As a rule, yes:) More data can pass beneath the read/write head when it moves faster. Add to that higher data density, and throughput can reach really high levels.
Tom
 
Did you know that rally cars go on above 5000RPM almost all the time!
Thats alot of Petrol to use...
 
Yasu said:
7200rpm is the standard rpm of modern HDDs. RPM=Revolutions Per Minute. There are HDDs that have 10,000rpm but those are pretty much just a waste of money since the capacity is smaller and the performance boost isn't noticeable.
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most laptop harddrives are 5400rpm to reduce heat.
 
yep. like someone said, the performance increase isnt huge (my 8mb cache 10,000RPM is slightly faster than my 16mb cache 7200 RPM...the 16mb cache makes a difference though), but it is noticeably better in some respects. I run programs a bit faster on the 10k, but I predominately use it for a scratch disk for [adobe] photoshop CS2. It basically copies all of the prog's system files and temp files to the faster drive while i'm working then get's rid of them when i'm done. it makes it run a nice bit faster, which is quite important to me. the real deal for speed is two 15,000RPM drives in RAID 0, but that's another story :)
 
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