Re: 2.5" v. 3.5" SATA for desktop

[Wolfgang <wolfgangmob@gmail.com>]

Seems to be where people argue which is more important, density v. speed, a few people who actually have tried it in a few forums show slight performance loss with 2.5" drive but still around 100MB/s+ with a 7200rpm 500GB 2.5", but nothing about doing a RAID 1 set up.  For me I'm used to using my MacBook Pro which is a mobile i7 2.66GHz, 8Gb RAM and 500GB 7200 rpm HDD, and my desktop is a Athlon X2 5000+ (2.6GHz) with 4GB RAM and currently a single 1TB HDD that is having bad sector issues, this idea would fall inline with wanting to try and centralize most of my storage off of my two systems (but have it be redundant).

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Chuck @ chuck-king <chuck@chuck-king.com> wrote:

Off the top of my head I'd think the bigger platers would offer faster performance, if it's true that longer  tracks reduce overall seek time.

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On Aug 4, 2011, at 8:23 PM, Wolfgang <wolfgangmob@gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone ever compared or know of any real stats on the performance of 7200 rpm 2.5" vs 7200 rpm 3.5" drives?  In my case I'm thinking about dual 7200rpm 2.5" 500GB or 750GB drives to replace my single 1TB 7200 rpm 3.5" drive as in transport my drives have taken damage in the past, plus there is no easy way to mount two drives in my case.  The overall plan is doing a RAID 1 then use a large external for back ups, as far as speed and performance, I don't play any real high end games so if performance is respectable I would be fine, just looking at the idea right now so looking for input, comments as well.
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