From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 8:43:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B5937B404 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:43:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6FD4518F5; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:42:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 670F318F4; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:42:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:42:58 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell To: Nader Turki Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5400RPM/7200RPM In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > a diff? specially that i'm running it on UDMA33 ... will a 7200RPM HD be > faster? what if i get a 7200RPM with ATA100 controller? will i see a big > diff? or i'm better off saving my $$$ and get the 5400RPM? > > i'm sure there are pro's out there who can tell me what's best or what they > think. The only real speed differance you'll see with 5400RPM vs 7200 is in sustained disk activity, IE, where you're copying a large file from one directory or another. The RPM speeds is another "marketing" factor that the hard drive manufactures are trying to push, when in reality only a very small sector of people need it. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message