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07-14-2004, 02:21 PM
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When recommending a hard drive, would overall performance be impacted greater by transfer bandwidth or access time? Or am I off base and the question doesn't make sense??
Which would be faster (and WHY): ATA133 5400 rpm 10ms or ATA100 7200 rpm 8.5ms I know, extremely noobish question, but work with me here... |
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07-14-2004, 02:40 PM
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Oh the ATA133 is nothing more then a gimmick, the 7200rpm would be a lot faster. Seek time is important and so as buffer cache. Try and get a 8mb cache buffer HD.
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07-14-2004, 02:50 PM
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Throughput burst ratings are just that... in bursts. The only time you'll see any realworld difference between 100/133 is when large contigious files are being read or being written to the drive, such as render outputs (video, wav>mp3 compression, compiling code) or while games are loading. And the difference won't be much. Seek times and buffer sizes however will help out reguardless of what you're doing. Anyone concerned enough about drive throughput would be advised to use SCSI anyway. Go with the big buffer and the faster seek time.
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