On 2/26/07, Jason Ish <ish@unx.ca> wrote:
> > 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
Hmm... I just noticed a comment at the bottom of the article
mentioning Solid State (aka Flash) HDs; how are those in terms of
price/lifespan/availablity these days? Ubuntu and all the apps I
could ever want would happily fit in an 8 GB drive...
CK
Received on Tue Feb 27 01:17:01 2007
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