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From: "Nader Turki" <nturki@hotmail.com>
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Subject: 5400RPM/7200RPM
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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

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