Re: Hard drive read speeds

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:03:58PM -0600, Les Klassen Hamm wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> Can someone point me to some good info on hard drive reading speeds?
> More specifically, if software needs to do a great deal of reading from
> lots of different files, how would a pair of 7200rpm drives in RAID 0
> compare to one 10K rpm drive?
>
> Do any of you use 10K rpm drives in desktop machines? Are they still
> really loud?

Jeff Atwood over at codinghorror.com just blogged about this the other
day, its worth a read:

    You Want a 10,000 RPM Boot Drive
    http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000800.html

-- Jason
Received on Mon Feb 26 22:46:07 2007