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Where do you get your math?
How do smaller drives at higher RPM compare to larger drives at lower RPM?

Last I checked, overall performance of a 72 or 36 GB Raptor even in RAID 0 was nill compared to pulling from a 7200 RPM 400 GB Drive. Not for sure how those numbers scale up, but I would think that as drives increase in size, seek time would decrease because of the information that is included on the outside of the platters is much denser than that of a 10,000 RPM drive.

May be you could back up your claims a bit. I will do my best to rebutt them.

For the most part you sound like a sales person from Western Digital.
Posted by: nucrash   Posted on: 02/27/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Where do you get your math?  nucrash | 02/27/07
Even the article you linked to rebutts your thinking  nucrash | 02/27/07
Think I answered this in my other psot ...  Adrian Kingsley-Hughes ZDNet Moderator | 02/27/07
Depends what you're after ...  Adrian Kingsley-Hughes ZDNet Moderator | 02/27/07
Not to mention hot!  scidhuv00 | 02/27/07
I keep them cool in a ...  Adrian Kingsley-Hughes ZDNet Moderator | 02/27/07
Since George Ou hasn't chimed in yet  t_mohajir | 02/27/07
Some quick points ...  Adrian Kingsley-Hughes ZDNet Moderator | 02/27/07
Love to see some benchmarks  t_mohajir | 02/27/07
The 400 GB drive will kill the Raptor on IOPS  georgeou | 02/27/07
But it does work!  Patanjali | 02/11/08
This wouldn't be 2 partitions  nucrash | 02/28/07
My thoughts exactly  nucrash | 02/27/07
High RPM drives are a ripoff  georgeou | 02/27/07
I don't know if I can fit them in my Toolbox Computer  nucrash | 02/28/07
Each HDD takes a max of 10 watts  georgeou | 02/28/07
Not to be clever or anything...  D. T. Schmitz | 02/27/07
Hmmm, that would be nice  Adrian Kingsley-Hughes ZDNet Moderator | 02/27/07
Right. We've been seeing that for over 20 years.  NetArch. | 02/27/07
How about 15K drives?  jasonp@... | 02/27/07
Who needs higher RPMS, I prefer 0  nucrash | 03/01/07
$$$$  Patanjali | 02/11/08
Hard sell  klumper | 02/27/07
Note that partitioning only speeds up IOPS  georgeou | 02/27/07
Right but ...  klumper | 02/27/07
Raptor's 16mb cache is the main performance enhancer  osreinstall | 02/27/07
Smaller 7200 16's available  klumper | 02/27/07
Not interested in looking that hard for them.  osreinstall | 02/27/07
No WD for me...  JSmotherman | 03/01/07
Why?  pj_mouse | 03/01/07
Wait for Solid State Drives  nucrash | 03/02/07
Why not? Hard drives are the bottleneck in computing.  osreinstall | 03/02/07
Audio recording use  Patanjali | 02/11/08
Solid State Drives Are allready comming!!  oldhippe@... | 03/02/07
Handgrenade  Dukhalion | 03/03/07
RE: Speed up your PC - Fit a 10,000 RPM system drive  sf_ca | 08/24/09

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