10000rpm hard drive?

[a529612]

Does anyone have experience 10k rpm drive? Would you recommend it for a trading PC or the performance gain is marginal at best over the fastest 7200rpm? Thanks!

 

[jumper]

I have the raptor 10k and I've noticed no difference. If I had it over again, I'd save the $100 upgrade.

 

[a529612]

How bad is the noise from the Raptor? What's your other HDD?

 

[jumper]

no noise difference from my WD 7200rpm HDD. well, at least, you can't hear the drive over the noise from the fan.

 

[Tums]

if you use the harddisk for video streaming, of if the harddisk is for a database server, then you would need a faster access hd.

for single user? no, that speed wouldn't have made a difference.

 

[a529612]

But I've heard you get faster bootup and noticeable improvement if you do video encoding with a 10k.

 

[BVM88]

That's what I thought (quicker boot times) and was actually considering using a Raptor just for the operating system (thinking that two disks may also help with system stability).

 

[bighog]

Noise level is no difference...........when you buy a car it always was advisable to buy V8 engine over a 6 because even driving around Chicago, LA etc it was nice to know you had the extra power when you need it most. GO faster. ..

 

[giles117]

2 Drives is cool, but shaing a second of a Cold Reboot??? Is ti really worth the increased noise of a 10K and heat????

I use 4 Drives, One for OS and Apps, others for Data storage.

System is QUITE nimble.

Oh, and they are all SATA Drives......

Something better than a 10K is 2 7200 Raided together. Most Systems will support RAID boot drives, etc....

I have seen 95 - 110MB/sec throughput with a dual 7200 RAID array.....

More than enough speed....

 

[trader28]

Hard drive is the one bottle neck in any system, there just hasn't been the advances in disk technology there have been in other components

get the raptor