ok i am geting a a boot hard drive for my new computer and i looked at the 10000 rpm hard drives but then i saw 15000 rpm hard drives, ok one are there any sata 15000 rpm hard drives and will it work good for windows vista and i'am on a budget of $175 please help
2007-11-13 09:10:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Before you buy a dive PLEASE!!!! confirm that you are buying the right kind of drive. SCSI drives are NOT compatible with IDE drives and vice-verse. MOST non-specialty desktops use IDEs right now, which are slower, but with higher storage capacities. (And are much cheaper, 7K/700GB for $325!)
If your drive plugs into a mother-board then its probably IDE. If it plugs into a separate card plugged into the rest of the mother board then you probably have SCSI.
The higher the speed, the faster the drive on big jobs, on smaller jobs the speed will be slower since it take time to spin the drive up. Honestly I don't think you'll notice the difference much unless you are running a file server or something like that.
Speed is a LOT more expensive than space. In fact faster SCSI drives are smaller than slower drives. For a 15k/141GB dive you'll pay about $800. A 10K/141GB drive costs about $500, but 10K drives go up to 300GB of space!
2007-11-13 09:42:16 · answer #1 · answered by Thomas S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi
rpm stands for rotations per minute and is refering to the internal metal platters located inside your hard drive.
The bigger the rpm the faster it can read and access files.
Yes there are sata hard drives at 15000rpm, but my suggestion to you is to spend the extra $ on storage space.
And it should be fine with windows vista
hope that helped anyway
2007-11-13 17:25:23 · answer #2 · answered by unsa man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have to be careful that a high hispeed drive may be slower than an ordinary one. The reason is the time it takes to get up to speed and exercise 2 seconds of data an ordinary one would have done it faster. However if you want to exercise 20 secs of data different story
Have a look at your HDD LED on your desktop. Each time it flashes a hi-hispeed drive be slower, but each time the LED is ON then the hi-hispeed drive be faster
2007-11-13 17:21:54 · answer #3 · answered by chezzrob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The faster they are, the hotter and noiser they will be. You won't notice a difference booting to windows though. Save your money.
Heres some drives.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010150014+1035507779&name=15%2c000+RPM
2007-11-13 17:18:12 · answer #4 · answered by lynx6201 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These numbers relate to the speed of the drive, so big the number the faster it goes.
2007-11-13 17:17:21 · answer #5 · answered by duffaboy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not for your budget yet...
2007-11-13 17:15:22 · answer #6 · answered by TAZZZZ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋