Hard Drive RPMs
In terms of real performance, how much difference will one see between a 5400 vs a 7200 vs a 10,000 rpm drive? Also, how does this mesh with ATA/100 vs ATA/66 vs Firewire and SCSI? I am about to get this dual 1Ghz machine and thinking about adding a 120GB HD.
Anyone have any insight about what will produce the best performance for the price?
<img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
Anyone have any insight about what will produce the best performance for the price?
<img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
Comments
the difference from 5400 to 7200 is veyr noticeable. there are no 10000 RPM ATA hard drives only SCSI. And they cost a hell of a lot of money. Depending on what you're doing its likely overkill.
120GB 7200 RPM ATA drive is perfect
G-news
i can now see every hair on britneys ...er..head
load up on the ram too, cant have too much ram or hd space (and yes ddr is way better than sdr)
[ 08-31-2002: Message edited by: futuremac ]</p>
2 days before I changed HDs I upgraded to OS-X (10.1.5)...
Here are the performance differences I have noticed since changing to a larger and faster HD.
MacOS 9.2.2 - I have never (and I mean never) seen it run this fast. Usually, from a cold boot - it would take just under a minute to start-up. With the new drive, my computer starts up from a cold boot in 30 seconds!
MacOS-X (10.1.5) - I have noticed very minimal differences. I know that OS-X runs slow on my machine (iMac 350) - but I feel that it is worth having just to be in a freeze-free enviornment. I have not really noticed much of a difference in OS-X's performance with the fast drive speed.