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MMOG payers, 5400rpm or 7200rpm?

post #1 of 18
10/1/04 at 12:09pm
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About to buy a sager. Should I get the 60gb 7200rpm drive or go for the 80gig 5400rpm?

Has anyone played with both? EQ? WoW? Will the 7200 noticably increase zone times or game speed?
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post #2 of 18
10/1/04 at 2:36pm
Over a 4200, yes. over a 5400, yes but less dramatic. Wait for the Seagate 100GB 5400. It'll be faster than the 7200 because of the higher areal density
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post #3 of 18
10/1/04 at 3:40pm
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Waiting sucks =) There's always something to wait for. I'm assuming I can just swap out the old drive for that one. (In a Sager 3790)
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post #4 of 18
10/1/04 at 5:13pm
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Originally Posted by damianicus
Waiting sucks =) There's always something to wait for. I'm assuming I can just swap out the old drive for that one. (In a Sager 3790)
Yes, and if you want ot retain all program in your old drive. Just get an external 2.5" drive enclosure and make sure you have a program (like TrueImage) that can clone your old drive with boot sector and MBR .
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post #5 of 18
10/1/04 at 5:16pm
damianicus

I am currently playing Everquest 2 beta.... its the most graphic intensive of the games out on the market for MMOG's i believe..

anyways I have a dell 9100 -- with a 5400 RPM drive and it runs the game just fine...

I would say 5400 is fine then... I dont know if 4200 could cut it..but I think that for MMOG 7200 may be more than you actually need

the most important thing for MMOGs seems to be system memory..


Jon
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post #6 of 18
10/1/04 at 5:34pm
i think 7200 is a must to keep your laptop updated or planning to keep it for longer usage.
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post #7 of 18
10/1/04 at 7:54pm
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Originally Posted by Sasuke808
i think 7200 is a must to keep your laptop updated or planning to keep it for longer usage.
No longer true with the higher areal density of the Seagate, You get better transfer rate than the 7200rpm 60GB and the battery usage of a 5400 rpm drive.
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post #8 of 18
10/1/04 at 9:44pm
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Originally Posted by Wiz33
No longer true with the higher areal density of the Seagate, You get better transfer rate than the 7200rpm 60GB and the battery usage of a 5400 rpm drive.
can u plz post a link to benchmarks of these two drives? thanks.
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post #9 of 18
10/1/04 at 10:46pm
Drive isn't out yet so there is no benchmark as yet. but having 50GB vs 30GB per platter mean you have much more areal density and you will have 66% more data on each track vs a 33% more speed.
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post #10 of 18
10/1/04 at 10:54pm
I don't believe that will make it faster than a 7200rpm drive with 30GB platters (the current Hitachi) but it will be close.

I think the key decision will be...do you want 100GB or is 60GB enough for you. If 60GB is enough, the Hitachi will still be the performance leader, by a small margin.

Andrew
Austin, TX
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post #11 of 18
10/2/04 at 12:09am
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Originally Posted by Wiz33
Drive isn't out yet so there is no benchmark as yet. but having 50GB vs 30GB per platter mean you have much more areal density and you will have 66% more data on each track vs a 33% more speed.
then please dont state things like they are fact. Some people here are not as computer savy as you, and thats giving them possibly false information. Plus, you forgot to mention seek times, which are an integral part of harddrive performance. Even though the 300 GB Maxtor has a higher area density, it still doesn't compare to the 74 GB Raptor in terms of speed....and thats because the raptor can just access data much more quickly.
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post #12 of 18
10/2/04 at 4:03am
It's not my claim, it's Seagate's. Go read the press release. Seek time and such only help in the initial burst of data, once you get into sustain tranfer the high areal density will win.
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post #13 of 18
10/2/04 at 9:51am
Uh, seek time really doesn't matter in terms of loading really. There's like 6 ms difference. If you can accurately measure time in such little increments, I have doubts of your humanity. :P

The 300GB maxtor CAN pull a higher sustained transfer rate than the raptor
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post #14 of 18
10/2/04 at 3:59pm
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Originally Posted by Wiz33
It's not my claim, it's Seagate's. Go read the press release. Seek time and such only help in the initial burst of data, once you get into sustain tranfer the high areal density will win.
humph, seagate claiming that their drives are the fastest. You know, I am having a lot of trouble believing that. Oh well, we will find out in a few weeks anyway right?

hazridi: are you kidding? The only time that seek time would have little use is when you are reading a lot of data.....and from the same track. Since this rarely happens(harddrives dont put data on contiguous blocks), you will rarely see a 300 GB drive outperforming a raptor. Plus, for everyday tasks, the raptor is wayyyy quicker than a normal 7200 rpm drive.
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post #15 of 18
10/2/04 at 8:07pm
The raptor is NOT significantly faster in any way than the 300GB SATA drives. Sorry to burst your bubble, but get over it. Over twice the areal density trumps a 1/3rd increase in rotational speed.

Jesus christ, noobs these days.
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post #16 of 18
10/2/04 at 9:08pm
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Originally Posted by Hazridi
The raptor is NOT significantly faster in any way than the 300GB SATA drives. Sorry to burst your bubble, but get over it. Over twice the areal density trumps a 1/3rd increase in rotational speed.

Jesus christ, noobs these days.
do your research before you post, especially when you are gonna be flaming someone.

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Deskstar 7K250 can't do much about the WD Raptor with 10,000 rpm - its advantages are too great because of the high spin rate. But if you take a close look at the results of the two contenders in the individual tests, you will see that the Raptor is clearly faster only in the I/O test and the maximum transfer rates - in the other disciplines, Hitachi's 7K250 has almost caught up.
http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/...skstar-06.html

and thats just the 36 GB raptor....
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post #17 of 18
10/3/04 at 1:22am
The 7200 will perform faster as far as load times go, but if you need the space get the 80gb. Even though there is a performance difference it isn't as significant as the 5400 rpm has over the 4200 rpm. The 5400rpm will do the job just fine when playing you will not notice the difference.
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post #18 of 18
10/3/04 at 2:30am
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Originally Posted by wz077ms
The 7200 will perform faster as far as load times go, but if you need the space get the 80gb. Even though there is a performance difference it isn't as significant as the 5400 rpm has over the 4200 rpm. The 5400rpm will do the job just fine when playing you will not notice the difference.

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