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28th Sep 2009, 11:08
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Shopping for 1tb hard drive. Which is more important , speed, rpm or cache. Seems like on a budget you have to give up some of one or the other. Choice's are 5900 rpm and 32mb cache or 7200 rpm and 16mb cache. Thx for your time.
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28th Sep 2009, 17:07
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Depends is noise a factor for you? Is this for your laptop?
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28th Sep 2009, 21:42
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Cache doesn't matter, RPM matters quite a bit. 5200RPM drives are only useful for bulk storage and/or laptop battery life. If this is a system drive for a desktop get the 7200RPM no question. If it's a bulk media drive for a desktop and you have the OS on another 7200RPM drive, I'd still get the 7200RPM drive but the other one is fine if it's sufficiently cheaper.
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