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Porsche911
09-29-2006, 08:31 AM
SATA 1.5gbps @ 10,000 RPM or SATA 3.0gbps @ 7200RPM?

Which is faster? I dont mine having only 64GB space or anything.

Thanks

Halo
09-29-2006, 07:54 PM
SATA 1.5 is going out SATA 3.0 is on the way in and the next stepping of SATA will surely be along in a year or so supposedly twice as fast as 3.0. Technically speaking, I probably don't know enough about read-write-seek times and disk spin efficiencies to tell you the slower access higher spin is better than the faster access slower spin is better but my leaning is to the latter. Seems to me the bottleneck is access and it doesn't matter how fast the disk is spinning so go with 3.0... and whatever you do I would recommend SEAGATE. People bash Seagate about RMA-ing and sending you back a refurbished drive, but I have never had a problem with a Seagate drive, and I can't say that about any of the other manufacturers.