New Hard Drives

[69ers]

Is there any 1 TB by any company that has a RPM of 10000? Also Last Question , Anything *Like 500-750* Gigs , have a Higher RPM because 7200 is too slow for gaming needs Thanks Guys =DD

 

[geofelt]

The RPM of a hard drive does not have a direct connection to the maximum data transfer rate that it is capable of. The rpm directly affects the access time, particularly the rotational delay component. The data transfer rate is better on drives that have denser platters, and the rate is better on the outer cylinders of the drives where more data is stored per track.
www.storagereview.com has some benchmarks of maximum sustained data transfer rates of several drives:
http://www.storagereview.com/php/benchmark/bench_sort.php
Of the drives tested, the seagate cheetah 15k.5 is tops at 135mb/sec a 15k drive
the 300gb velociraptor is second at 127.0 a 10k drive.
The hitachi deskstar e7k1000 is third at 121. I think it is a 7200rpm drive.

 

[69ers]

Crap. I need a 10k RPM + High Transfer Rate T_T sigh. Anything that's a High Capacity Like 500 gigs or at least a 750? THanks

 

[geofelt]

Consider a raid-0 array of short stroked 250gb drives.
Here is a recent article on that:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/short-stroking-hdd,2157.html

Raid of SSD's is also an option. They are very good at reads, but not so good on writes(intel and slc drives excepted). They are getting better by the week; by the end of the year, I expect them to be mainstream.

 

[69ers]

Ew SSDs too expensive i need a Bulky and great hard drive D

 

[andy99998]

RPM is not everything, the seagate cheetah is a great drive, erm try this one though pretty rapid same one as mentioned above, they are very good drives! problem is storage is pretty small for a hardrive now days! http://www.krzcomputers.co.nr/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=22_32&products_id=471