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So the 60gb hard drive in my mini needs to be replaced. I like speed and i'm looking at a Seagate Momentus 7200rpm 100gb drive. It's the largest 7200rpm drive I can find. I wouldn't mind having a bigger drive though but don't know if I want to sacrifice the speed of going to 5400rpm.
Is the speed of advantage of 7200rpm over 5400rpm noticable on the mini?
So the 60gb hard drive in my mini needs to be replaced. I like speed and i'm looking at a Seagate Momentus 7200rpm 100gb drive. It's the largest 7200rpm drive I can find. I wouldn't mind having a bigger drive though but don't know if I want to sacrifice the speed of going to 5400rpm.
Is the speed of advantage of 7200rpm over 5400rpm noticable on the mini?
I have heard conflicting reports on whether it is noticably faster. It would certainly measurably faster. I would go with a bigger drive, as opposed to faster one. If people say they don't notice, then at the very least it can be said that the difference is small. I think that your money would be better spent on the space.
There is a speed difference, but what you really want to look for is the cache size. This is the part of the harddrive set aside for memory paging, etc. 8 mb should be sufficient. Most factory harddrives come with no more than 2 mb cache.
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