HD upgrade

[Tlaloc]

i am looking to upgrade my harddrive to something a little more powerfull. my main question would be that i've heard that seek time is important. the problem is i do not know what classifies as an impressive seek time.

eg. what would be the best seek time available to a consumer.


also: is it worth getting a 10,000 RPM HDD? everybody talks about hte 7,200 ones but i rarly see mentions of the first one?

anythoughts

 

[Jimmdean]

The 10,000 RPM drives were significantly better at one time, but now the more recent larger drives have narrowed the gap. If you need a lot of space, then the 10,000 RPM drives aren't for you. What size were you thinking?

 

[Tlaloc]

i was thinking of 250G or more, i could go down to 200 but that would be the limit.

 

[Bobioden]

You can get a external 320gb Western Digital My Book for less than $90. If you fill that one up, buy another.