23 Dec
2010
23 Dec
'10
8:08 a.m.
On 12/23/10 07:42, david wrote:
Ivan K wrote:
> On a somewhat related topic, is there a brand of SATA drive
> that people recommend as far as reliability, speed, and low noise?
> Also, even though Terabyte drives are inexpensive these days,
> would a 500 GB drive be better as far as speed (reading/writing)
> than a 1 TB drive? (I really would not need a full TB anyways).
If you are concerned about heat & noise, consider a 2.5" drive.
I don't think drive size has any impact on speed.
Newer drives tend to
be faster than the previous models, I think. Also, the larger drives may
come with larger on-board caches.
The higher the density, the higher the number of bits read per time. So
drive size (~density because you can only use a certain number of
platters) has a direct corelation with throughput.
Flo
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