On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 10:51:46AM -0500, Matthew Nuzum wrote: > So if you all were going to choose between two hard drives where: > drive A has capacity C and spins at 15K rpms, and > drive B has capacity 2 x C and spins at 10K rpms and > all other features are the same, the price is the same and C is enough > disk space which would you choose? > > I've noticed that on IDE drives, as the capacity increases the data > density increases and there is a pereceived (I've not measured it) > performance increase. > > Would the increased data density of the higher capacity drive be of > greater benefit than the faster spindle speed of drive A?
The increased data density will help transfer speed off the platter, but that's it. It won't help rotational latency. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])