5400 RPM compared to 7200 RPM

[Maleficus]

Is there any real performance difference between the two? the reason i ask is cause i got a 60 gig 5400 WD HD and im not sure to keep it. my current drive is a IBM 75GXP 7200 RPM ATA100 drive. if i were to keep it i would setup a RAID array and im not sure to keep the WD HD. so anyway any real performance difference between 5400 RPM and 7200 RPM?

kthx

 

[Kingofcomputer]

Maxtor D540X
http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/diamondmax/DataSheet/D540X133_datasheet.pdf

Data Transfer Speed (MByte/sec, max)
To/From Interface 100/133
To/From Media 43.4
Sustained at OD 35.9
Sustained at ID 17.8

D740X
http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/DiamondMaxPlus/DataSheet/D740X_datasheet.pdf

Data Transfer Speed (MByte/sec, max)
To/From Interface 133
To/From Media 54.2 <----------- 25% higher than similar 5400rpm model
Sustained at OD 44.4 <----------- 24%
Sustained at ID 24.2 <----------- 36%

 

[meaty]

I have a 5400rpm & a 7200rpm , I will spare ya all the benchmarks & just tell ya I see a big difference
in performence. Now would they just get a 10,000rpm IDE on the market...

 

[VBboy]

www.StorageReview.com - look at their Drives database. You can compare up to 6 drives; you should choose 2 similar drives where one is 5400 and the other is 7200.

 

[Bovinicus]

The difference is pretty substantial in both latency (seek/access time and such) and transfer rates. Of course, 5400RPM drives with significantly larger platters may offset the advantage seen in 7200RPM drives.