10.000rpm drive

Don't think there are any other 10k drives for a desktop pc.
There are some 7.2k drives that nearly match the raptors at sustained transfer speeds (not sure what make tho), but access times will be a bit slower.
 
one of *** best performigng hard drives at the moment if you discount raptors is the western digitall aaks series the fastes is t he 750gb version withe th500gb just slighgtly behind it. the 750gb nearly matches all the performacnes of the raptor with only a slight diffence on *** seek times due to slower spindle speed.

smaller drives tend to be a lil slower strangely enoug but thats mainly cuase most manufatcures making new technology in larger drives soo smaller ones tend to be old tech
 
thefishdude said:
one of *** best performigng hard drives at the moment if you discount raptors is the western digitall aaks series the fastes is t he 750gb version withe th500gb just slighgtly behind it. the 750gb nearly matches all the performacnes of the raptor with only a slight diffence on *** seek times due to slower spindle speed.

smaller drives tend to be a lil slower strangely enoug but thats mainly cuase most manufatcures making new technology in larger drives soo smaller ones tend to be old tech
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thought the smaller drivres would be quicker somehow
 
thefishdude said:
smaller drives tend to be a lil slower strangely enoug but thats mainly cuase most manufatcures making new technology in larger drives soo smaller ones tend to be old tech
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Not at all. If you look about there are small, single platter drives available from all the major manufacturers which use the same high density platters as the bigger drives. The Hitachi 7k160 and WD AAJS drives for example are just as quick as the T7K500 and AAKS series. The new 250Gb Seagate 7200.10 is the daddy though, it uses the same platter as the upcoming 7200.11 series and is extremely quick (faster transfers than any other SATA drive). The only problem is making sure you get a single platter one, OCUK do them though.
 
bigger drives are faster generally. its not that newer tech is faster than older tech (it is) but its because of the platters used.

if you compare a new drive with a single platter (around 250gb) to one of the biggest drives from the same range (750gb) that would typically use 3 platters, the 750gb will be faster. think of it as an internal raid as thats basically how it works. 3 platters = 3 read heads = 3 reads/writes at once = faster thruput.

simple as that:)
 
james.miller said:
if you compare a new drive with a single platter (around 250gb) to one of the biggest drives from the same range (750gb) that would typically use 3 platters, the 750gb will be faster. think of it as an internal raid as thats basically how it works. 3 platters = 3 read heads = 3 reads/writes at once = faster thruput.
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No. There are three heads but they only read from one platter at a time.

If you compare disks across a range (assuming identical platters) the maximum, minimum and average transfer rates will be virtually identical. The only difference as you add platters is that you have more space in the fastest third of the disk but you also have more space in the slowest third.
 
BTW, HD-Tach Reads in MB/Sec not Mb/Sec (could confuse peeps).

You are only really interested in the AVERAGE MB/Sec Speed, and a SINGLE HDD will not get 300MB/Sec BURST Rate even if its a SATA 300 Drive.
 
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