Hi, im building a new rig and I purchased 2 1TB Western Digital 7200RPM Black Caviar Drives to put into my new rig, however lately I have been thinking about possibly selling one of these drives to get one of these...
Western Digital WD Raptor 10K RPM SATA 160GB Hard Drive - eBay (item 150420041642 end time Jun-01-10 11:21:40 PDT)
Im a bit hesitant to do this because I am using this PC for playing Multimedia type stuff such as HD video, and I tend to use up hard drive space like nobody's business. So I may need that 2 TB of space. At the same time, I am going to be upgrading to Windows 7 soon and would like a 10K RPM drive to put my OS on for optimum speed when doing random things on my computer.
My question is, with the hard drive that I have linked to, will that drive truly read and write significantly faster than the Black Caviar drives I currently have? Because if the difference is only going to be very minor, then I would rather just stick with what I have, but if I will see a significant difference in "snappiness" when booting up, shutting down, and other things like that, then I may want to go with the 10K drive. I know that not all drives of the same speed are created equal, and I have seen some specs where 7200RPM drives end up being even faster than certain 10K drives, so I want to get my facts straight before I do this.
Western Digital WD Raptor 10K RPM SATA 160GB Hard Drive - eBay (item 150420041642 end time Jun-01-10 11:21:40 PDT)
Im a bit hesitant to do this because I am using this PC for playing Multimedia type stuff such as HD video, and I tend to use up hard drive space like nobody's business. So I may need that 2 TB of space. At the same time, I am going to be upgrading to Windows 7 soon and would like a 10K RPM drive to put my OS on for optimum speed when doing random things on my computer.
My question is, with the hard drive that I have linked to, will that drive truly read and write significantly faster than the Black Caviar drives I currently have? Because if the difference is only going to be very minor, then I would rather just stick with what I have, but if I will see a significant difference in "snappiness" when booting up, shutting down, and other things like that, then I may want to go with the 10K drive. I know that not all drives of the same speed are created equal, and I have seen some specs where 7200RPM drives end up being even faster than certain 10K drives, so I want to get my facts straight before I do this.