Are 10,000 rpm disk worth the money?

[Academia]

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?

Are they popular now?



Thanks

 

[JS]

See Tom's Hardware: http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage.html

JS

"Academia" <academiaNOSPAM@a-znet.com> wrote in message
news:uyNm5dXTIHA.4440@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> 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?
>
> Are they popular now?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>

 

[Bob Willard]

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.

--
Cheers, Bob

 

[Paul]

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

 

[philo]

"Academia" <academiaNOSPAM@a-znet.com> wrote in message
news:uyNm5dXTIHA.4440@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> 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?
>
> Are they popular now?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>

Have a good look at the specs...especially data transfer rates...
the few 10,000 rpm drives I've spec'ed out did not seem to be any better
thab 7200 rpm drives...
though they were a lot more expensive!

 

[Paul]

philo wrote:
> "Academia" <academiaNOSPAM@a-znet.com> wrote in message
> news:uyNm5dXTIHA.4440@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> 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?
>>
>> Are they popular now?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>
> Have a good look at the specs...especially data transfer rates...
> the few 10,000 rpm drives I've spec'ed out did not seem to be any better
> thab 7200 rpm drives...
> though they were a lot more expensive!
>

Lower seek time is an advantage of higher RPM disks. Max transfer
rate varies, especially when comparing different generations of head
technology.

And for some numbers, this site has a few. It is interesting, that a
WD Caviar 750GB, actually has a faster sustained transfer rate (97MB/sec),
than the Raptors.

http://www.storagereview.com/Testbed4Compare.sr

Paul

 

[Academia]

Thanks to all for the info.



"Academia" <academiaNOSPAM@a-znet.com> wrote in message
news:uyNm5dXTIHA.4440@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> 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?
>
> Are they popular now?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>