Re: Are 10,000 rpm disk worth the money?

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Bob Willard wrote:
Academia wrote:

When I bought my computer 3-4 years ago I got SATA and 10,000 rpm disk drive.

I want to add a bigger disk now and wonder what the current evaluation of 10,000 rpm disk is.

Are they worth the extra money?

Speed costs money. How fast do you want to go?

Are they popular now?

They never were popular with makers of garden-variety PCs, since those
folks prioritize low cost over high performance.

Thanks

If you want really fast, try a RAID0 set of 15K RPM SCSI HDs on a
hardware RAID controller; anything less is just a compromise.


Actually, some of the new SSDs look like fun. The MTRON here, is
something like $1200 each, and you can RAID them :-) One limiting
factor, is in the comment section of the second article, the
device is limited to about 125 writes/sec. For writing small
random files, that can be quite a restriction. But for large
linear writes, these are quiet and fast.

http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=326
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3167

Paul
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