From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 8:55:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC8337B402 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:55:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16lC1w-0001z1-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:55:12 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id C2EB74880D for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:55:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 3B5902259B; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:55:12 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:55:12 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5400RPM/7200RPM Message-ID: <20020313165512.GD4304@raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:42:58AM -0800, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > 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. > You will notice a substantial difference running an IDE at UDMA100 than in a PIO mode..at least I do. I mean you won't notice it when you do an "ls", but you will when you do a "buildworld". As remarked above, I have never really felt that the extra cost of 7200 over 5400 adds much general-purpose value, makes more noise though. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message