10,000rpm HD

[imported_SpaceGhost]

In an office environment where most everything is worked off of a network, is there a significant benefit for any given system to have this fast of HD? What are the benefits, if any?

 

[ProviaFan]

A 10000RPM drive such as the WD Raptor only helps if you need to do significant random access to it (e.g. an OS and programs drive, or a scratch file for Photoshop). Even then, the benefit is not large enough to make the additional expense over a normal 7200RPM drive worthwhile unless you go beyond basic office tasks. If your applications run from the network, then you'd see practically no benefit at all except for booting the OS. As a side note, if you think it would help due to faster swap file access, then you'd be mistaken - US$160 is much better "invested" in a couple of GB of RAM to make the swap file much less necessary.

 

[imported_SpaceGhost]

This is pretty much what my thinking was, I just wanted to run it up the flagpole to see if anyones opinion/experience differed.

Thanks so much!

 

[Agamar]

If this drive is going into a an application server, like a web server / Terminal server / yada yada, then you will want the fastest disk subsytem you can afford. If this is just a client PC, then don't worry about it.