10,000 rpm hard drive

[Kahamri]

I searched and didnt see what i was looking for
i'm building a gaming pc. Only 1 purpous...gamiing

Are the 10,000 rpm had drives worth it, or should i jsut go with a good old sata2? i know the 10,000 will load levels faster, is there anything else it's good for?

[B1Gtime]

I have the same question, because the 10,000RPM hard drives are more expensive than the 7200RPM.

Redundant said: I read those HDDs are not much faster than 7200 RPM ones.

So i might just go with the 7200RPM

[Airbozo]

You will barely notice any difference at all with the 10k rpm drives, especially if you only have one in your system. the higher rotational speeds don't transfer data faster, they just find it faster. Where I have seen a difference with the higher rpm drives is for databases and streaming video. Even then it is somewhat dependent on the setup (raid, etc). Do some research on this and see if you can find any reviews of the drives.

[XcOM]

you won't see much of a diffrence, for the cost i can't see the justification.

[99e46]

I have a raptor 36gb 10K rpm HD. It works just like any other 7200 HD, just a tad bit faster. I do notice that I get into servers about 2-3 secs faster other than that not much of a difference! Unless you always want to be first in servers and what not.

Stick with a 7200 rpm HD, to me the extra money is not worth it.

[Eclecticos]

Thats all fine and good. . But 36GB? Id have that thing filled up in 2 days.
Ill stick to my 250gb sata 2's for now. ..

[Bashtastic@gmail.com]

One thing you might want to consider is getting 2 7200 PRPM drives and putting them in a Raid 0 config.

AS i understand raid, and i might be wrong, but in a Raid 0 config, it splits the data in 2 parts and writes them to each drive at the same time. You would then running esentially one harddrive in the array at 14400 RPM. But the down said to a Raid 0, is that unlike the other raids, there is no data redunancy. So if you have one drive fail, you have to start over.

[gaz_the_chav]

I though that to use raid you need 4 sata hard-drvies?!

-gaz

[Redundant]

I though that to use raid you need 4 sata hard-drvies?!

-gaz

RAID 1 (redundancy) and RAID 0 (speed) use 2 drives

RAID 10 and RAID 1+0 uses 4 drives

Check out the different configurations. (http://www.9to5computer.com/atto/Comparing-Raid-Configurations.htm)

This post is perfect with my screen name. 8)

[CanaBalistic]

RAID 1 (redundancy) and RAID 0 (speed) use 2 drives

RAID 10 and RAID 1+0 uses 4 drives

Check out the different configurations. (http://www.9to5computer.com/atto/Comparing-Raid-Configurations.htm)

This post is perfect with my screen name. 8)

Good link! +rep

[Airbozo]

This is my favorite raid tutorial site...
http://www.acnc.com/04_01_50.html

[progbuddy]

Allover, the 10,000 RPM harddrive will not give you that much performance over the 7,200 RPM harddrives. They do have 15,000 RPM harddrives, but I do not know much about them.

The thing that WILL give you more performance is a higher level of HDD cache. 8 MB will do, but 16 MB gives you quite a large boost when accessing large files.

[simon275]

They do have 15,000 RPM harddrives, but I do not know much about them.


Those drives are SCSI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI) drives they are used in server environments in high powered servers.


a typical enterprise, i.e. workstation hard disk might store between 160 GB and 750 GB of data (as of local US market by December 2006), rotate at 7,200 to 10,000 revolutions per minute (RPM), and have a sequential media transfer rate of over 80 MB/s. The fastest enterprise hard disks spin at 15,000 RPM, and can achieve sequential media transfer speeds up to and beyond 110 MB/s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk

[progbuddy]

Those drives are SCSI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI) drives they are used in server environments in high powered servers.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk

They make a Western Digital Raptor 15,000 RPM harddrive.

[Scotty]

SCSI cards cost loads though and then even more for the drives.

Just get 2 7200RPM drives with good cache and Raid them up in raid 0, they offer better performance than 10k raptor i have it in a mag somewhere. You could always raid 0, 2 raptors for crazy speeds :o

[progbuddy]

SCSI cards cost loads though and then even more for the drives.

Just get 2 7200RPM drives with good cache and Raid them up in raid 0, they offer better performance than 10k raptor i have it in a mag somewhere. You could always raid 0, 2 raptors for crazy speeds :o

Better yet, Raid 1+0 them. OMG, that would be fast.