Burst transfer rates-do they matter?

[IAmATeaf]

Recently installed a pair of 1.5Tb Seagate 7200.11 drives and running some tests on them they seem to perform nearly the same except the burst transfer rate, does this actually matter and if it does then is there anything I can do to sort the under-performing drive out?

Below are the HDTach results for my 500Gb 7200.11 and the 1.5Tb pair

 

[Wilderbeast]

My quad 250gig drives in raid 0

No idea if thats good or bad Claims the burst rate is over 400, but it doesnt feel that much faster than the 2x 500 gigs i have in raid 0.

 

[daz]

Do you move a lot of large files around often?

If not, then the maximum throughput is not going to affect your day to day performance. Much better is to look at random reads/random writes.

 

[IAmATeaf]

Do you move a lot of large files around often?

If not, then the maximum throughput is not going to affect your day to day performance. Much better is to look at random reads/random writes.

No I don't to be honest, was just wondering that's all.

 

[IAmATeaf]

Right just had a look around the PC and noticed that the 500gb hard drives had the jumper to limit them to SATA 1 in place, pulled the jumpers and now the burst rate for all my drives in above 200, maybe a coincidence for the 1.5Tb drive but are SATA ports in way paired? So that the setting on 1 will affect the other?

 

[tdream]

No, it doesn't matter. It blows what's in the cache and then it's the standard transfer rate.