7200 vs 10000 Hard Drives

**Sir Robin** · 06-11-2006, 03:17

Getting a new pc soon and I was wondering.

Is a 10000 rpm hard drive much better than a 7200 rpm hard drive?

**Dooz** · 06-11-2006, 05:38

If numbers mean anything, you'd have to assume so.

**hoom** · 06-11-2006, 06:57

The new big Seagate 7200rpm drives with perpendicular recording are nearly as fast as a 10000rpm drive while being a: cheaper per gig and b: bigger in capacity.

**Lemur** · 06-11-2006, 16:25

The fastest hard drive currently on the market.

Not sure about the Seagate HDs -- I thought they were supposed to be years from hitting the desktop. It's entirely possible I missed a major announcement, though. Links, please?

[edit]

Never mind, a little searching turned up thisand this.

**KukriKhan** · 06-11-2006, 19:12

Yikes... that last link to cluboverclocker blew up my IE6 browser while trying to load; anything special about that place?

**Lemur** · 06-11-2006, 19:14

The Club OC link has actual tests between a second-gen Raptor (74 gig) and the Seagate 750. The Seagate spanks the Raptor, which is Big News. The site views fine in Firefox ...