Or as few as one in the case of this Seagate 160GB drive on NewEgg.Originally Posted by JVene
Or as few as one in the case of this Seagate 160GB drive on NewEgg.
Ultimately it depend on what the performance bottleneck of your system is. For web servers, its almost always I/O, so they generally spring for the high end drives. RAID can help in this department, since the right RAID level can dramatically increase your read speeds (while poop-canning your write speeds). So it depends on what you are using yoru computer for. Personally, I use mine mostly for app development and games. Id rather spend $600 on a G-Force 8800 than $300 on a new harddrive. Id definately see the improvement from the G-Force, but the faster harddrive would only be noticeable when the app was loading.
Most commercial HDD use 3 platters, of which only 5 sides are used. Low end drives usually have one head per side. Ive taken apart high end drives that had as many as 5 heads per side.
Last edited by abachler; 06-01-2007 at 09:58 AM.
