5400rpm (new perpendicular drive) vs 7200rpm ?

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5400rpm (new perpendicular drive) vs 7200rpm ?

#1 Post by drnoom » Sat Aug 25, 2007 5:45 pm

which one i should go for?

Hitachi 5k160 (5400rpm) 160GB, it's cost £51. is it good?

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#2 Post by agarza » Sun Aug 26, 2007 8:56 am

Are you looking for raw transfer speeds, using software that require quite a bit of data bandwidth?

I'd say 7200rpm drives are unbeatable. I think 7K200 just came out for ATA interfaces (with 16MB of buffer cache)
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