[birdman717]

I am currently building a new system and am researching what type of hard drive I should use to run the operating system from. I have run into a problem though. I had decided I want at least a 10,000 RPM drive and also want it to be SATA-300. For the life of me I cannot find a drive that offers both. If there is one out there, where can I find it? Or, if it doesnt exist (as of yet anyway) which is best to run the OS from, the SATA-150 10,000 RPM or the SATA-300 7,200 RPM?

Please someone, inform me

Thanks in advance.

Birdman717

[Mulderator]

Originally Posted by birdman717

I am currently building a new system and am researching what type of hard drive I should use to run the operating system from. I have run into a problem though. I had decided I want at least a 10,000 RPM drive and also want it to be SATA-300. For the life of me I cannot find a drive that offers both. If there is one out there, where can I find it? Or, if it doesnt exist (as of yet anyway) which is best to run the OS from, the SATA-150 10,000 RPM or the SATA-300 7,200 RPM?

Please someone, inform me

Thanks in advance.

Birdman717

The 10,000 RPM is better. I'd go with the 150 Gig WD Raptor.

[Bob Cerelli]

Absolutely. The data transfer is going to be that much faster.

Finally gave up on another thread where someone was convinced there was no noticeable difference with faster drives.

Mulder is totally right on this.

Just wish I could afford one ;-)

[Mulderator]

Originally Posted by Mulder

The 10,000 RPM is better. I'd go with the 150 Gig WD Raptor.

And I don't recommend that off the top of my head, I HAVE THAT DRIVE. its $179 at NewEgg after rebate:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136012

I would add it depends on what you are going to be doing--I do quite a bit of video editing so it makes a difference there--its not going to make much difference is you're building a machine for word processing and web surfing and for playing music and such. These drives earn their salt when you are doing really intensive computing like video editing or gaming. My point is you don'g have to overkill--its an expensive drive, especially per gigabyte so you shouldn't get it just to have a fast drive unless you are going to take advantage of it--Word coming up in a few milliseconds faster really isn't worth it.

[birdman717]

Thanks, you guys are awesome!!! I have actually found a cheap(er) 10,000 RPM Raptor (WD360ADFD 36.7GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150). The best deal I found was at Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136054. Again, this is for my OS so I would have plenty of room. I'm not sure if the 150 has any benefits over this "little brother" drive and if it would be worth it to spend the extra money. What I will be doing mostly which would be considered intensive is video encoding, and on my current system it takes forever and bogs it down to nothing. Thanks again you guys for your input, I really appreciate it.