On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 08:42:57PM -1000, david wrote: > 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. In a given drive family, I think most size options come with the same cache sizes. Meaning, you can get a 500gig drive with 32MB cache, or a 1TB drive with the same cache. As to size effecting performance, don't some file systems get slower when they are running low on space? That could be an argument for a larger drive. Smaller can sometimes mean faster, for instance if choosing a Seagate Momentus XT, which is 320 gigs, instead of a 1TB drive. The Momentus XT has a few gigs of flash cache onboard, and reviewers across all operating systems seem to be pretty favorable. > Brands? I like Hitachi and Western Digital. Toshiba for notebook drives. > I've also had good results from IBM and Seagate. I've only had 2 drives > fail on me. Both very old Seagates. The oldest failed after being used > for about 10 years. The newer one died during its first year, was > replaced under warranty, then died again about 18 months later. I've had drives of many brands fail, but usually old ones long past warranty. Currently, I favor Seagate and Western Digital. I don't know that I have a great reason for that. I certainly have had good Hitachi and Fujitsu drives. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
