5400rpm or 7200rpm a big difference?

[MrsCabbage]

I'm just about to buy a hard drive but need a little advice on whether I should (a) Fujistsu/DiamondMax/Seagate 5400 rpm 40GB for all about the same price of £100 (b)Quantum/DiamondMax 7200 rpm 40GB for about £20 more. I guess if there's a real diffence between diff rpms the extra noise would be worth it.

 

[Comtech]

Get the 7200 drive.
You'll notice a visible difference in speed, much more so than from ATA33 to ATA66 or ATA100.
The best of both would be ATA100 at 7200rpm or better.
IBM now has 10000rpm drives available.
(This is assuming IDE, and not SCSI). Cheers,
Jim

http://members.cnx.net/reboot/

 

[MrsCabbage]

Cool thanks yes u assumed right I was talking about IDE drives

 

[Shad007]

It is a tossup really..if you have money to spare it's best to get the fastest ide drives with largest capacity...however if you are trying to keep within budget and prefer a lot of storage space as opposed to a faster system..the average user will not really notice the difference between the two. It really equates to this: 7200 = faster and more expensive per gb..as opposed to 5400, slower but more gb for the same cost... ..ie Storage vs Speed... you should base it on what you will be using the PC for and how much you have to spend on it...