The higher seek rate really doesn't hurt playback, and ultimately you're looking for storage space, not to save a nano-second before your video begins.
.....Ok, now everyone can disagree with me....
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| torris Senior Member  Deep within Mila's anus 1827 Posts 1/00 |  Posted - Nov 28 2000 : 8:03PMI'd generally post this to a more applicable ng but don't have time or inclination to wade through a bazillion posts. And ADTers seem smarter then the norm. I'm in the market for a new Hard Drive. Mainly to record my vinyl collection to hard drive. But also for porn mpegs. I'd like to buy the biggest yet affordable drive. I've seen a Maxtor 80 gig listed at CompUSa for about $300 but it's a 5400 speed rather than 7200. Is that gonna make a huge difference to an amatueur recorder such as myself? Or should I go with another unit that's maybe lower in storage space but faster. Any advice for me? TIA [Link] |
| JoeBobBriggs Member Somewhere between here and there... 89 Posts 11/99 | Posted - Nov 28 2000 : 8:16PM The higher seek rate really doesn't hurt playback, and ultimately you're looking for storage space, not to save a nano-second before your video begins. .....Ok, now everyone can disagree with me.... [Link] |
| de Member 29 Posts 4/00 | Posted - Nov 29 2000 : 6:37AM BTW, everybody has their own opinion but I am really partial to IBM deskstar hard drives. Western Digital would be my second choice. ANd with IBM's or WD you get utilities that make installing the HD very easy. You may get the same utilities with other brands such as Maxtor also. Hope this helped! de [Link] |
Jeff @ IAFD  Webmaster IAFD.COM 931 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Nov 30 2000 : 7:56AM With today's big BIOS' and whatnot, you no longer need the shims, etc. that come with the big drive install programs. I can't tell you how many problems I tracked back to EZ-START or whatever disck loader of the day they're sendig out. The only time those progs are good is if you have an old computer that won't recoginzie the full size of the drive, and you don't want to (or can't) flash the BIOS. Stay away from the diskettes that come with hard drives. [Link] |
| de Member 29 Posts 4/00 | Posted - Nov 30 2000 : 12:33PM IBM does have some utility that helps older BIOS's recognize drives over 8.4GB (or something like that). Although I have used that I am really referring to the format/partition utility. It is soooo much easier than using fdisk. That's just my opinion. Other HD manufactureer's may have a sub-par program but IBM and WD haven't let me down yet. If you have alot of computer experience you may be OK with fdisk. But I would bet that since torris was asking the diff between 7200/5400 rpm's he/she could use the help of such utilities. [Link] |
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| Jeff @ IAFD Webmaster IAFD.COM 931 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Nov 30 2000 : 4:05PM Anyway, yeah, back in the day thes utilities were good, but if you have a machine made beyond 1998 or so, your bios should be able to handle the big drives, etc. and the utilities are kinda unneeded, unless you know for sure that they're not adding any sort of device driver. If you don't like fdisk (which I can see, I guess... tho I find it rather easy) I recommend Partition Magic -- wonderful prog -- at least version 5.0 that I've been using. [Link] |
| torris Senior Member Deep within Mila's anus 1827 Posts 1/00 | Posted - Dec 3 2000 : 11:50AM |
| Evil_Rip Senior Member Power overwhelming 1117 Posts 12/99 | Posted - Dec 3 2000 : 12:36PM The RPMs a drive is listed at are only one measure of Hard Drives performance. They have double what the "faster" rpm drive can do. You can check out this site to see what they review most hard drives [Link] |
| BadKarma Member 110 Posts 11/00 | Posted - Dec 3 2000 : 7:36PM can do more without involving the CPU(s) in the process. [Link] |
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