In a message dated 4/15/02 5:55:47 PM 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
>

Rocky, first I'd suggest trying to stay with the 5400rpm if you can for
reliablility these days. But access speed is affected by how many platters
the mfg uses to make the total size. The more platters for the same Gig size
the 'faster' the info can be found. The more platters the more read/write
heads and they travel less distance to find the files. But I and others have
noticed failures of the high speed and dense pack new drives so unless you
really 'access' a lot I'd consider a slower speed drive with 'good' access. I
use an IBM 60 but before the 75s had problems I was wary. good luck and
read.....

Dennis Dittmar
Maspeth NY
a small town in Queens
where I search for info...

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