fast single platter drive

treehouse786

treehouse786

treehouse786

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hi, i want to purchase new hard drive as mines a bit old, can someone please tell me what the fastest single platter hard drive is (has to be available from overclockers and be under £50)
 
I would think that build quality plays just as important a role in reliability as number of platters but anyway, another alternative is the 150 GB VelociRaptor. Slower sequential speeds than the F3 but faster random access and access times. If capacity is not such a big issue and you plan to install OS and / or apps on the drive it's worth thinking about.
 
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All things being equal, that may be true. I doubt it makes much of a difference to the avarage home user. It may play a small role in an enterprise environment but not something I would worry about. I've had just one drive out of many fail on me in so many years, which was an F3 ironically.
 
ubersonic said:
Common sense says less moving parts = less things to break, less platters, arms, heads, etc
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That's far from 'common sense' far, far from it. They have the same MTBF, multi-platter drives aren't something special they're normal and mechanical failure doesn't come from more moving parts it's really just bad luck which is as likely to affect a single platter drive as one with more. I don't think there's anything to suggest that a drive with just one platter is more reliable.
 
AbsenceJam said:
That's far from 'common sense' far, far from it. They have the same MTBF, multi-platter drives aren't something special they're normal and mechanical failure doesn't come from more moving parts it's really just bad luck which is as likely to affect a single platter drive as one with more. I don't think there's anything to suggest that a drive with just one platter is more reliable.
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What part about my statement was ambiguous? more moving parts = more things that can go wrong = higher chance of something going wrong, its not rocket surgery :S

a single platter drive has lower odds of mechanical failure than the multi platter version of the same drive, fact
 
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ubersonic said:
Common sense says less moving parts = less things to break, less platters, arms, heads, etc
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Rubbish. The platters, arms and heads are are linked together on a multi platter drive. Single platter drives would have a higher mtbf if what you were saying is true.
 
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