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What's quicker out of these HD's

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Deanodarlo

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What is the best performer out of these drives peeps:

80GB WD Caviar 8MB cache £72.64 Inc delivery

or

120GB 180GXP 2MB cache £80 Inc delivery

Both drives are easily big enough for my needs so I'm looking for max performance! 🙂

Thanks.
 
Don't hard drives get faster as their size increases as they can store more info on the outside of the disk.

Also, the IBM/Hitachi drives have 60GB platters when the WD's only have 40GB.

So I'm not sure which gives better performance.
 
It's pretty much a toss up, although the IBM prolly has faster seek and read time you won't notice it so IMO go with the WD 80 gigger...why?...cause it has a 3year warranty as opposed to 1 with the Hitachi/IBM
 
It depends on the date of manufacture for the WD. Those disks can have 40, 60, or 80 GB platters! I've run across some single platter 800JB's that were much quieter and had idential performance to the 2500JB! 🙂

The IBM/HGST is faster in a server environment. Both drives are good.

-DAK-
 
hard drives get faster as PLATTER size increases, thus density increases. now if there is a model drive with 1 platter at 40GB, or 3 platters at 120GB, the 40GB will actually be a tiny bit quicker (since the inside is lighter, and the PC can spin it up to speed a tiny bit faster)
 
Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
hard drives get faster as PLATTER size increases, thus density increases. now if there is a model drive with 1 platter at 40GB, or 3 platters at 120GB, the 40GB will actually be a tiny bit quicker (since the inside is lighter, and the PC can spin it up to speed a tiny bit faster)
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LOL... that's funny... it's faster cause the PC can spin it up to speed faster... did you set Windows to shut off your hard drive after 1 minute of inactivity or something?

Hard drives don't get faster as platter size increases... they get faster as areal density increases... meaning, a drive with 60 GB per platter will be faster than a drive with 40 GB per platter.

The number of platters by itself has no effect on anything except heat. More platters = more surface area = more heat due to friction between the air and the spinning platters.
 
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