5400 vs 7200

yes you will notice a difference between 5400rpm and 7200rpm. couple questions though. if you're building a system, really i mean what would $30 mean? an alternative too might be to get a 60gb ibm ata100 @ 7200rpm for the price of what you would pay for the 80gb drive @5400rpm. i don't know too many people that game and causual photo editing that can eat up 60gb let alone 80.

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The theoretical speed difference is 33%. Even if it's not really up there, you'll definitely notice a difference.

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You'll definitely notice a difference. The Western Digital 100gig drive might be a good choice (under $200), as long as you're not prejudiced against WD (like me).

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Did u by any chance have that awful experience w/ the caviar WD drives- they sucked, crashed on me every other minute.

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I have a friend with a 7200RPM WD Expert (an older line). It's fine, but I find it a bit slow, and also it's noticeably louder than most.

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significant difference.

do yourself a favor and get the 7200 rpm. make it your boot device.

if you still need mass storage you can always get a 5400 rpm monster later.
bear in mind that often the biggest bottleneck in a system IS the hard drive.

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Western Digital is an excellent company! They had problems with eariler drives but all their modern drives work perfectly.

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