Do I need a better HDD?

[PsychoUnit]

Well I've heard an hdd can be the biggest bottleneck of slow processing, and I was wondering if I needed a better/faster hdd, here are the specs for mine:

Manufacturer: Hitachi
Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
Max. Internal Data Rate: 757 Mbits/s
Average Seek: 8.8 ms
Track-to-track seek: 1.1 ms
Full Seek: 15.1 ms
Interface: SATA
Buffer-to-Host Data Rate: 150 MB/s
Buffer Size: 2 MB

 

[OdiN]

Nah that drive is fine.

 

[PsychoUnit]

I'm just a little worried about the buffer size and the data rate, I've seen 1.5 gbps

 

[Bobthelost]

Ignore that bit, utterly irrelevant to how it really does function. Seek times are the same, irrelevant. The cache is low, if you want to look at how yours compares to others out there check out http://www.storagereview.com/comparison.html then chose your benchmark of choice and then find your drive.

You would get some performance increase from a new drive, if it's worth the money or not is all up to you.