Originally posted by: Homerboy
Originally posted by: rivan
As others have said many, many times - I'd rather have twice the speed than twice the capacity these days.
All that terabyte drives do for me is make me worry about how the hell I'm going to back all that carp up.
who said that?
large volume drives are NOT intended for speed. The idea is LARGE storage ability for media servers etc where speed is not important at all. This is not intended to be your C: drive its intended to be your Z: drive.
Who HASN'T said they wanted better speed from their primary drives? Other than you, apparently? Why do you think Vista wants 4G of RAM? It's not because Vista itself needs that much, it's because hard disk speed sucks. The fact of the matter is that (most of) today's SATA drives - if equipped with smaller caches, wouldn't be
significantly faster than a 10-year-old PATA drive. Faster? Sure... but only a little. Seek times haven't changed much, and neither has sustained read/write, if I'm not mistaken. In any event, they haven't kept up with the sorts of progress other portions of the computer. We're still using refined versions of drive tech that's been around more than 10 years, and we're supposed to get all hot and bothered by it's capacity? Pfft.
Edit: I'll admit there's a place for high capacity drives - and they're admittedly making great strides on that front. My beef is that the speed of these drives hasn't changed much in a long, long time.
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