SATA hard drives

[mike]

I am building a new computer for gaming. I am interested in the
difference in preformace between 10,000 and 7200 RPM drives? Are there
relaibility issues with the 10,000 rpm drives and are they worth the
money? My new system is a 3.4ghz with a 800 front side bus, 1g of
3200ddr ram and a Geforce 5900 video card.
thanks for the input.

[Rod Spade]

A 10k rpm drive should have faster access times, due to the lower
rotational latency. That would mainly help if you're building a server
that must handle multiple users, but in that case you'd want SCSI
instead of SATA....

Manufacturers have been making 10k SCSI drives for years, so I would not
assume that 10k rpm is inherently less reliable. OTOH, people are
willing to pay more for SCSI drives, so manufacturers can afford to make
them more reliable and offer a longer warranty.

I don't think you "need" a 10k drive, especially with 1 GB RAM, but it
sounds to me like you are willing to pay more for better performance.
Maybe this review will help you decide:

http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200401/20040126WD740GD_sp.html


mike wrote:
I am building a new computer for gaming. I am interested in the difference in preformace between 10,000 and 7200 RPM drives? Are there relaibility issues with the 10,000 rpm drives and are they worth the money? My new system is a 3.4ghz with a 800 front side bus, 1g of 3200ddr ram and a Geforce 5900 video card. thanks for the input.