HD Question

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:51 pm

IF 2 hd were 500GB in size. One of them RPM's is listed as 7200 RPM 16MB Cache and the other is listed as 5400 to 7200 RPM 16MB Cache, would I even notice the difference in RPM? Please let me know.

thx

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:57 pm

24giovanni wrote:IF 2 hd were 500GB in size. One of them RPM's is listed as 7200 RPM 16MB Cache and the other is listed as 5400 to 7200 RPM 16MB Cache, would I even notice the difference in RPM? Please let me know.

thx

The seagate is faster, whether it has to do with the variable RPM of the WD or not I don't know, but you would see a difference in speed between the 2 drives.

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:10 pm

A noticeable difference or just by a little?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:21 pm

24giovanni wrote:A noticeable difference or just by a little?

Doing full malware/virus scans, defrags, loading games, large files and such, yes noticeable.

Web browsing and other daily general things, no.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:42 am

24giovanni wrote:IF 2 hd were 500GB in size. One of them RPM's is listed as 7200 RPM 16MB Cache and the other is listed as 5400 to 7200 RPM 16MB Cache, would I even notice the difference in RPM? Please let me know.

thx

Heck yeah.

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:22 pm

CAT, After reading this, how do you feel? Do you still feel that way?

http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx ... 532&pgno=0

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:11 am

24giovanni wrote:CAT, After reading this, how do you feel? Do you still feel that way?

http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx ... 532&pgno=0

That's a variable speed drive.....that link doesn't show much for reviews/specs/benchmarks though, I cannot find a seek time.

The minute or so I gave Google looking for benchmarks on it, I found one over at Toms Hardware, it was "middle of the pack" for performance.

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:37 am

I ended up ordering the cuda. thx for responding. I appreciate it.

thx