HDD which more important..?

[gold_eagle]

Is HDD rotational speed for eg.5400 7200 more important or is the seek time more important?
Then wad abt the buffer eg.2mb 8mb does it make a big difference

Btw for seek time for eg.8.9 ave Is higher average seek time eg. 12.3ms better or lower eg. 8.5????:confused:

[saphalline]

Rotational speed is more important. Seek time and buffer size rate the same on average, it depends on what you're doing. Lower seek time is better.

Taking all that into consideration, I don't think you should get a hard drive that doesn't have the best of all of these! It's pretty standard these days to have a hard drive with 7200rpm, 8MB cache, and 9ms or less seek time. Consider that your minimum. :D

[gold_eagle]

Wad if im gaming lower seek time helps??:)

[Budfred]

With gaming, the hard drive speed isn't as important as the video, RAM and CPU. Once the game is loaded, the hard drive really doesn't have that much to do compared to the other components....

[saphalline]

As I explained in another thread, seek time is directly tied to rotation speed. So if you want a better seek time, get a faster spinning hard drive.

In any case, seek time is only one part of the larger whole of a hard drive, and you shouldn't shop for a hard drive based on seek time alone.

Ah but waiting for a game to load can be downright frustrating! I upgraded my hard drive from an IBM 60gxp 60GB to a Western Digital WD800JB and I saw my game load times drop by about 10-20%! :eek: That's very impressive considering the IBM 60gxp was no slouch, either! And don't even get me going on the difference between the old 2GB vs my WD 80GB!

But seriously, gold_eagle, you do have the PC horsepower to make the hard drive upgrade worthwhile, right?