Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 00:26:20 -0500 From: "Nader Turki" <nturki@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 5400RPM/7200RPM Message-ID: <F21XiFzQpc03TqRRAY10001250b@hotmail.com>
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hi all, i sold my pc and i'm using my old gateway right now. it's an old PII333MHz, 256MB PC100 SDRAM, 4.1GB quantum fireball (UDMA33). i'm running FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE with blackbox. actually i'll make it easy and paste parts of dmesg here: CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (334.09-MHz 686-class CPU) real memory = 268435456 (262144K bytes) avail memory = 256172032 (250168K bytes) pci1: <NVidia Riva Ultra Vanta TNT2 graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 9 ad0: 4104MB <QUANTUM FIREBALL EX4.3A> [8895/15/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 i wanna upgrade my HD and get a biger one. i found a cheap maxtor 20GB 5400RPM for $49, i was wondering with such an old machine will the RPM make a diff? specially that i'm running it on UDMA33 ... will a 7200RPM HD be faster? what if i get a 7200RPM with ATA100 controller? will i see a big diff? or i'm better off saving my $$$ and get the 5400RPM? i'm sure there are pro's out there who can tell me what's best or what they think. thanks, nader _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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