10,000 rpm hard drive

[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 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 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.