has anyone upgraded from a 7200 RPM drive to 10000 and seen a world of difference? the price points on these drives are staggering... a 7200 rpm 1TB drive is $80 where as a 250gig 10000 RPM drive is $180.

my computer is constantly hitting disk overload on my projects now and i need to be able to work with heavy audio filled projects.

I have both (two old 10000RPM 75GB raptors and one 500GB 7200 RPM WD which is my new primary HD) and I don't really notice any performance difference, but I haven't really run any benchmarks and I don't think any difference would be easy enough to tell without them. My 7200 RPM drive is much quieter though. I would go with a 7200RPM drive, as I really don't think there is a big enough performance gain to justify the cost and lack of space. I usually have all my samples loaded in RAM anyway.

Just buy 7200 RPM, it really doesn't make sense to spend so much when the difference is not all that important. If you're looking to buy a 1TB drive, I recommend THIS. I bought one a little while ago and have yet to be disappointed. It's nice and quiet for it's size, it's no louder than my WD 250GB drive.

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I used to run a 36GB WD Raptor and can't say I noticed much difference. Then again, I wasn't producing music on it so you might notice a difference.

SCSI goes up to 15k if you want really fast drives

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On your system (boot) drive, it makes a pretty big difference with respect to boot times. But if you're going to shell out extra cash, probably better to get an SSD instead.

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I went from RAID5 to RAID0 on some 7200RPM drives.


RAID0 fliiiiieeeees.... dangerous though.

I dont keep anything on that computer besides games though.

whats raid5?? only heard about raid0,1,01 and 10 and the last two are infact the same and requeries 4 disks? (doubling size and speed with two disks, mirrors the two with another two with double speed and size?)

I was speaking to a mac tech (third party), and at least for mac, the faster RPM drives aren't worth the performance increase. Other things become more important when you're getting bottlenecking. I know from first hand experience that PTHD rigs get no amazing boost from faster native drives.

You won't notice much different for producing. However, your system will boot up a fair bit faster. Go to storagereviews.com and look at the benchmarks, then decide if it is worth it. Velociraptors are pretty quick, but there are some 7200rpm drives that come relatively close.

I wouldn't get an SSD yet. Among other things, XP/Vista don't support the TRIM command and you need to run a trimming tool manually. Too much hassle, IMO. I would wait until SLC drives become affordable and Windows 7 is RTM.

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Originally posted by palm whats raid5?? only heard about raid0,1,01 and 10 and the last two are infact the same and requeries 4 disks? (doubling size and speed with two disks, mirrors the two with another two with double speed and size?)

raid 5 a stripped parity setup requiring 3+ disks.

The size is (x-1)*s where x is the number of disks and s is the individual size.

One disk is used for parity.

You can lose any disk in the array and it will still function.

I'd say run RAID rather than getting the pricier disks... You'll hit bottlenecks elsewhere though. How many audio tracks are we talking about running here?

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Perhaps wait until the prices on SSDs become 'acceptable'.

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