On 12/23/10 07:42, david wrote: > Ivan K wrote: >> On a somewhat related topic, is there a brand of SATA drive >> that people recommend as far as reliability, speed, and low noise? >> Also, even though Terabyte drives are inexpensive these days, >> would a 500 GB drive be better as far as speed (reading/writing) >> than a 1 TB drive? (I really would not need a full TB anyways). If you are concerned about heat & noise, consider a 2.5" drive. > I don't think drive size has any impact on speed. Newer drives tend to > be faster than the previous models, I think. Also, the larger drives may > come with larger on-board caches. The higher the density, the higher the number of bits read per time. So drive size (~density because you can only use a certain number of platters) has a direct corelation with throughput. Flo -- Machines can do the work, so people have time to think. public key DA43FEF4 x-hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
