Proformance increase with rpm increase?

[slothy]

Right now I have a sata 80gig hd, I'm thinking of getting a 36gb raptor and using it as my primary for xp, and games, and using the 80 for storage. Would I notice a proformance increase having my OS and games running on the 10000rpm hd as oposed to 7200?

[DPA]

hardly

[lone1dog]

If you go to dual rapters in raid you will,one rapture perfoms well but you wouldn't see alot of difference between IDE 7200rpm and SATA 10000

[FatalException]

On the other hand... I switched from a 200GB WD (8MB cache) drive as my primary master to a WD Raptor 74GB SATA drive and I did notice a difference. I do a lot of data compression and I find that performing compression of the same set of data on the Raptor is much faster than on my old 200GB 7200RPM drive. The reviews seem to indicate these are the results I should expect (faster speed with the 10k RPM drive). If you don't do a lot of data manipulation on the drive, though, you may not notice much speed difference. Also, note that the 36GB version of the raptor is slightly slower than the 74GB one.

http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/.../wd740-08.html

[bombledmonk]

You will see a noticable speed increase in loading times among other things running a 74GB Raptor as your main drive. But don't expect anything magical. The 36GB versions do not perform as well so it may or may not be worth it for you.

[sechs]

Whether there is an increase in performance really depends upon your definition of "performance."

Decreases in seek times tend to make a system feel snappier (as does using dual CPUs or increasing system memory). It, however, will not make files load appreciably faster (unless you never defragment).