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10000rpm hard drive?
- Thread starter a529612
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If you want a fast HDD system, put together 2 drives in a RAID config. Ideally, use 4 drives so that you can use RAID0+1 or whatever it's called - striped and mirrored. That will be both faster and safer than one big drive. Areca make fast RAID cards. Mine works well with 4 x 250gb drives.Quote from 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!
http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcix.htm
Suss
Quote from Traveler:
The fast SCSI drives are nice. I had one on my HP workstation and it's definitely faster , including booting up.
I don't know that I would pay extra for it though.
Indeed, SCSI are faster, and you don't need a stopwatch to mesure the difference.
But when i compare my tradingresults between my ATA period and my SCSI period there seems to be no difference.
Quote from jumper:
I have the raptor 10k and I've noticed no difference. If I had it over again, I'd save the $100 upgrade.
I have the same set-up in my Dell Dimension 8300.
It has not made a measureable difference, AND for what it's worth, who in their right mind wants to deal with a FRESH FULL INSTALL of an operating system?
That takes hours.
Not fun.
Quote from giles117:
Of course you can decrease your boot times even further by turning off alot of the crap that trys to load at boot time in Windows. I effectually get about 30 second boot time of XP on a 5400 RPM hard drive after I trimmed the fat.
Of course I can clock it to be sure.... (be back in a bit. LOL)
I got it down to 10 or 11 sec, after trimming craps out of the system and a small overclock on a P4EE 641 3.2Gz, overclock to 3.84Gz, massive heatsink, 2G 667 ram with heat spreader. Even the set the charts with less data today, felt like a 100% improvement, LOL
A question comes to mind, should I go 2 x 10k on Raid 1 or 4 x 7.2k on Raid 0 +1 ???
Quote from GTS:
Prices are dropping fast, look how cheap 2 and 4GB USB drives are. http://news.digitaltrends.com/article12453.html
Getting better, too. The new Corsair Voyageur GT is 2X faster than the prior fastest... and a 2G is only $29..... comes in 4G and 8G, also.
Nice!Quote from gnome:
Getting better, too. The new Corsair Voyageur GT is 2X faster than the prior fastest... and a 2G is only $29..... comes in 4G and 8G, also.
http://techgage.com/article/corsair_voyager_gt_8gb/