Speed advantage of 7200 rpm over 5400 rmp HD

[Haris]

Hi,

Can anyone share their knowledge about this issue: is
there any advantage of having a 7200 RMP hard drive
hosting your windows system?

I currently am running my XP Pro on a 40GB 5400 RPM
drive. I do a fair amount of video editing so I bought a
bigger 80GB 7200 RMP drive. I need to decide whether I
should reinstall Windows on the faster and bigger drive.
Anyone? Will that give me any advantage in encoding? It
usually takes hours and hours to do so the difference in
speed may be noticeable.

Thanks,
Haris
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You'll notice approximately a 33% increase in overall
disk performance by installing XP on a 7200 RPM drive.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| Hi,
|
| Can anyone share their knowledge about this issue: is
| there any advantage of having a 7200 RMP hard drive
| hosting your windows system?
|
| I currently am running my XP Pro on a 40GB 5400 RPM
| drive. I do a fair amount of video editing so I bought a
| bigger 80GB 7200 RMP drive. I need to decide whether I
| should reinstall Windows on the faster and bigger drive.
| Anyone? Will that give me any advantage in encoding? It
| usually takes hours and hours to do so the difference in
| speed may be noticeable.
|
| Thanks,
| Haris
| (e-mail address removed)

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I currently am running my XP Pro on a 40GB 5400 RPM
drive. I do a fair amount of video editing so I bought a
bigger 80GB 7200 RMP drive. I need to decide whether I
should reinstall Windows on the faster and bigger drive.
Anyone? Will that give me any advantage in encoding? It
usually takes hours and hours to do so the difference in
speed may be noticeable.

Haris,

isn't processor performance the bottleneck for encoding? If so,
the faster disk will not help you at all, and it will also not
matter whether you put Windows on it.

It would help somewhat with other things though. Windows would
boot a tad faster, for example.

Whether you put Windows on the faster disk or leave it where it
is, you should put the swapfile on the faster disk, unless that
disk is extremely busy all the time. That, of course, will
matter only when the swapfile is actually used and when the disk
is not otherwise very busy while the swapfile is being used.

By the way, you could move your existing installation to the new
disk, using one of the procedures outlined in
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxMove.htm. And also by the way, if
you're doing video editing, why did you buy such a small hard
disk?

Hans-Georg