10,000 RPM Hard drives

[danowar]

hello everyone,

just got finished building a new Windows PC (3.4 Pentium D) and im looking to purchase a 10,000 rpm HD in the near future. right now i only have one HD, a SATA 160gb Western Digital.

im considering a W.D. Raptor (150gb).

my question;

should i use the 10000 rpm hd for Windows XP and my software - Cubase sx3 and Audition 1.5?

or

should i use the 10000rpm hd for my audio files?

Thanks in advance for the help!!!!
Dan

[dpd]

Unless you are doing a HUGE number of tracks - and I doubt if that's the case - a 7,200 rpm drive will suffice.

[TimOBrien]

It has been proven in tests that a 7200rpm drive can handle upwards of 100 tracks.

If you dedicate a drive to the OS & applications, a drive to recording audio and another drive to handle streaming samples, there is no need to purchase 10,000 rpm drives (and you wouldn't want to try to do all three from one drive anyway...)

You're just blowing money needlessly.

[Justin]

You'll only see a slight difference over using good 7200rpm drives.
10k drives are usually louder as well.

I'd not use a 10,000 RPM drive for the OS, you'll only see better boot times and faster seek on system files, but it probably will not even be noticable.

[Hattrick]

I have a SATA WD Raptor as my OS Drive and it works great nice and fast yes you can here it ever so slightly. I still use my old Maxtor 7200 drive which isn't SATA and it works just as well with no issues and is about as loud as the Raptor.

[bob anderson]

My background is in broadcast video editing systems. I build "thermally advantaged" systems (which means weird ducting in the computers and no cpu fans) and i'm pretty happy with the raptors. In the past i was using 4 or 8 raid o striped ultra scsi drives and they were really loud. I find fewer/larger capacity raptors to be a really great alternative. Plus they are a a lot less expensive.

My suggestion would be to run the OS on a different drive, so that the audio drive is only worried about playing audio.

Now understand I'm building systems that require 100mb/sec sustained transfer rate, and I know that would be a zillion audio tracks, but better to swat the mosquito with an elephant gun, than let it get away!

Bob Anderson