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.

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[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.

This post is perfect with my screen name.

Good link! +rep