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An outstanding "epinion"....thanks! (Reply to this comment)
by Bonies7
Thanks for taking the time to post such an informative...thorough...and insightful "epinion" on hard drives.
I found your writing to be perceptive...and VERY helpful to the reader...
My compliments...well done!
Jeff Clow (Bonies7)
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Apr 19 '00
10:58 am PDT
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Very important and solid review (Reply to this comment)
by 401402
Very good!
Everyone can pick up something new here.
Very complete overview, like it!
Best regards, Jens
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Apr 19 '00
5:30 am PDT
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Re: 7200 RPM drives (Reply to this comment)
by vicwang
Whoops. My girlfriend was still logged in when I posted that comment. It was from me, though.
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Apr 16 '00
10:58 am PDT
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Re: 7200 RPM drives (Reply to this comment)
by niraphay
Hey versius. Thanks for the reply. I guess my comments were more geared towards someone considering a hard drive upgrade, so I agree with what you're saying as far as building systems from scratch. My reasoning was basically that, for a really old system (ex. Pentiurm 60-200) with old hard drive technology, the difference between the presumably-old HD and a new 7200 RPM one can be literally 25x. So on such a system, the difference between a 5400 RPM drive and a 7200 probably wouldn't be very much, but if the drive is 3000-4500 RPM the difference can be HUGE.
At work we had this old system with an 800 meg drive, and it was SO unbearably slow my boss wanted to trash it completely. I suggested instead to try getting a new 7200 RPM HD, which is what we did, and it was like an entirely new system. Not only were load times reduced dramatically, but the blazingly fast swapfile sped up application usage as well. Not bad for a $100 upgrade, especially when she wanted to replace it with a ~$1500 system!
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Apr 16 '00
10:18 am PDT
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:) (Reply to this comment)
by teddiec
Very informational and so thorough, you are good at this stuff!
:)
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Apr 14 '00
8:16 pm PDT
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Re: 7200 RPM drives (Reply to this comment)
by Versius
An interesting note. First let me say that I think this is why this opinion(epinion) format is so successful; the feedback is great.
Thank you for reading and commenting on my epinion. My reasoning, based on individual circumstances that I have run into while upgrading and rebuilding older systems, as well as building new ones(No, I'm not bragging...my 10yr old nephew can do all that too and most of you probably can as well!), is that I simply have rarely seen a significant performance increase from a 7200rpm over a 5400rpm drive in realistic applications ON OLDER SYSTEMS. Now, I should probably note that this may be due as much to older drivers, older tech in other areas and etc., but the point remains; in my experience, unless you have a newer system with the other components/peripherals up to par, there shouldn't be any need for the 7200rpm drives. Now, if its the difference of 10-15 dollars, then buy the 7200 anyway(sooner or later, hopefully, you'll upgrade the rest of your system and you'll see the benefit).
Again, thanks for your comment(and, I should add, that was the opinion I held as well for a long time on that point, but it didn't seem to hold up to experience, which is not to say that it isn't correct, but in my "epinion," if there is a significant cost factor difference, go with the 5400 on slower systems, but don't bottleneck a K-7 Athlon with one.
If you have any further input, I'd be more than happy to hear it.
Oh, sorry it took so long to respond to this comment, I've been really busy. Take it easy.
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Apr 13 '00
10:28 pm PDT
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7200 RPM drives (Reply to this comment)
by vicwang
Great article, but I'm puzzled as to why you would say, "if you are still using your trusty old 266, then 5400(RPM)is fine". In my experience, not only is 7200 RPM an absolute must when buying a new drive (since they are so much faster than 5400 at very little extra cost), but you'll have a big performance gain regardless of your processor's speed as long as your motherboard supports DMA/Ultra ATA.
Of course having a new Ultra-ATA 66 controller would make the most of the latest high-end drives, but even for low-end systems with DMA, hard drive access is a relatively CPU-independent task. I would even say that for a slow system where the rest of the components are slow enough as it is, the effects of a fast hard drive can be even _more_ noticeable.
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Apr 09 '00
12:27 am PDT
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