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baqar   05-07-2009 at 05:10:36 AM

I have two Sata HDD one is of 80 GB and the other is of 160 GB. I installed win xp on 160 GB and than i installed win xp on 80 GB and i noticed that the speed of 80 GB is faster than that of 160 GB. Is it true that smaller HDD are faster than bigger HDD.

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RomDA_73   05-07-2009 at 01:10:17 PM
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It really does depend on the drives themselves. You should look at specific specs like "cache" or "rpm".

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Bronze Storage badge cjl   05-07-2009 at 03:09:53 PM
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It has much more to do with drive design than size, and actually, in most cases, bigger drives are faster than smaller ones.

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