hard drives

[Eric]

Hard drives are pretty much the slowest piece of a PC anymore, not counting
floppy/CD drives which aren't typically accessed while doing intense
processing that you'd really want the speed for.
Are there any IDE drives yet faster than 7200 rpm?
Is it worthwhile to get a SCSI drive for a home PC?

 

[Jim Macklin]

There are 10,000 and even 15,000 rpm drives. But you also
want the drives with the newest technology and biggest
buffers.
Data density increases output, since the head reads data
that is closer on the platter.

SCSI probably isn't going to out perform the big SATA
drives. Read the full specs on any drive.


| Hard drives are pretty much the slowest piece of a PC
anymore, not counting
| floppy/CD drives which aren't typically accessed while
doing intense
| processing that you'd really want the speed for.
| Are there any IDE drives yet faster than 7200 rpm?
| Is it worthwhile to get a SCSI drive for a home PC?
|
|

 

[Dave B.]

WD Raptors come to mind.

 

[JS]

Hard drives have always been one of the slowest links in the chain. SCSI was
the fastest, especially for servers.
For a home PC I would look at SATA II drives.

For additional info:
See: http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/Specific.aspx?ArticleId=16014
and drive reviews at Tom's Hardware:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage.html

JS

 

[Eric]

Is it worth the extra cost?
WD has a price of $169.99 for a 74GB.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=65

I'm not sure what model mine is exactly, but I bought a WD 120 GB last year
from Circuit City for about $50 after rebate.

 

[Dave B.]

Only you can answer that, to me it's not, I prefer to spend much less on a
Seagate 7200 RPM 250GB drive.

 

[Jerry]

Don't complain about speed and then complain about the price of something
faster. If you want to go faster you'll pay for it.

 

[Eric]

I'm not trying to complain about price. I guess I'm trying to ask one of
two questions...

Is the speed difference from the 7200 rpm to that 10000 rpm drive
noticeable?

Is there a speed upgrade option that would be more noticeable for the price?
(ie for the typical home user that plays a lot of games with a lot of
graphics, would the money be better spent buying more RAM, or a bigger
better video card?)

 

[Malke]

I'm not trying to complain about price. I guess I'm trying to ask one
of two questions...

Is the speed difference from the 7200 rpm to that 10000 rpm drive
noticeable?
Yes.

Is there a speed upgrade option that would be more noticeable for the
price? (ie for the typical home user that plays a lot of games with a
lot of graphics, would the money be better spent buying more RAM, or a
bigger better video card?)

Yes. If you are trying to get speed for games, a hard drive running at
7200 rpm is just fine. Put your money into 1) more RAM; 2) best video
card you can afford with the most RAM on it; 3) fast processor.

Malke