[archer75]

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?

[Tuoder]

Originally Posted by archer75

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.

[badnewsblair]

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.

[moonmonkey]

big speed difference.