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    Can some of you guys advise me, if I use two seperate hard drives on my PC, one for Win98 and editing software and the other for the editing files.

    Do the drives need to run at the same speed or can I have one running at 5400rpm say the software drive and the editing drive running at 7200rpm. Would this speed be better for editing or does it matter?

    I know this might seam a simple question but I want this to be right.

    Finaly which make of hard drives should I consider? Or are they all fairly similar?

    Ta!


  • #2
    The disks can easily be of different rotational speeds, but if you want it fast go for 7200rpm.

    This is a good site for choosing make and model.
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    • #3
      Of course, if you want REALLY fast, follow the link to the Cheetah X15... WOW!

      As a side note (sorry for my attempt to kidnap your thread), what would you need a 15,000 RPM drive for? Obviously faster access to data, but for what purpose? File servers? Just seems excessive.

      Of course, there's the old saying "I can't see why anyone would need more than 640K"
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      • #4
        Speed is indeed a wonderful thing, check out the Happy Shopper i'm selling a 9.1GB Barracuda Ultra2 drive CHEAP.
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        • #5
          They really help on database server such as SQL. Where read write speed is very important.
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          • #6
            My database is about to be moved to it's new server.
            Compac Proliant 8000, etc, etc.
            With 14 x 18.2GB @ 10,000 RPM! Wheeeeeee
            chuck

            My advice is to buy 7200RPM IBM drives.
            They are reliable, cool running, fast, and fairly inexpensive.
            Chuck
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            • #7
              Thanks guys

              I will go to the web site recommended and I have decided to go for both drives running at 7200. Oh to hell with the expence give the cat another canary!!!!!!

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              • #8
                Another thing that a 15,000RPM drive would be good for is digital video streaming. The company I am working for is working on a solution for streaming mpeg2 video across cable networks. 10k rpm drives do quite nicely, and in a RAID5 configuration we've been able to consitently stream quite a few videos at a consistent transfer rate, but those extra RPMs could make it so that we could transfer just a little bit more without causing all of the streams to start breaking up.

                Basically, any application where you need to be continually accessing and sending out data will benifit from the higher RPMs.

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