Agreed!  Also, hard drive failure can be dramatically reduced through
proper cooling (try using a hard drive cooler for the any of the 7200+
drives).  One option you missed was using a RAID optioned MOBO and dual
drives for faster R/W.  Works every time! :)

        Cheers,
        Steve

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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Hard drive access speed?


In a message dated 04/16/2002 7:34:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> > I will be building my first computer soon, and have a question about

> > hard drive selection. I know that size and platter speed are the
> > selling points that many go by, but somewhere I read about access
> > speed being as important.
> Can

Hi,
  Reliability-wise, I've had as good or better luck with 7200 rpm drives
as with 5400.

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