Are all samsung spinpoints 7500RPM

[Merlin4458]

I bought new parts for a build a few nights back in my other thread, and decided to keep my 3/4 year old Samsung SpinPoint 250gb.

My question is A: are they all 7500RPM? Cause im in israel at the moment so cant check

B: Would this HD be fine in my new setup or should I really be buying a new HD for reasons you will explain to me?

C: If my spinpoint is only 5400RPM, would u suggest upgrading to anew HD?


Thanks all

[Pob255]

No it depends which series and model they are

eg the F2 is 5400rpm
the F1 was 7200rpm
the F3 is 7200rpm (and ment to be a replacement to the F1)
The F4 is a mix or 7200 and 5600rpm depending on model

[Merlin4458]

No it depends which series and model they are

eg the F2 is 5400rpm
the F1 was 7200rpm
the F3 is 7200rpm (and ment to be a replacement to the F1)
The F4 is a mix or 7200 and 5600rpm depending on model

Thanks Pob.

Say for agruments sake its a 5400RPM model. Im using this PC soley for gaming, so would only having a 5400RPM drive hinder me in anyway shape or form compared to the 7200 drives? If so, how?

Im a noob when it comes to hardrives.

thanks

[Pob255]

Bit longer loading times mainly. generally you do need to look at the overall speed of a drive not just the rpm value.

If you've got an F1 or F3 I'd say stick with it.
The New F4 is worth a look at, esp the smaller capacity ones (well smaller these days) they are said to be blindingly fast for a Hard drive
The 320gb one £30 http://www.scan.co.uk/products/320gb...ache-89-ms-ncq not a great amount of cost and it would be a good replacement for a F2 which can then be used for storage/backup

[Merlin4458]

is the F4 the fastest/latest/best model to go for? I dont need it to be very big tbh

[Merlin4458]

Finally found what hardrive I bought. Its a 250G Samsung SATA2 7200 8MB. Thats all the info I have as it was bought in July 2006.

Still worth upgrading for 30 quid?

[jim]

It will be a bit faster, but nothing you can notice. I wouldn't bother unless you need to, for extra space or something like that.

[Pob255]

Unless you need more space not really, I'm guessing you've got a spinpoint F1 the F4 is supposed to be 10% faster but that's not actually a massive amount.
esp as it's fastest under long sequential read/write not short random read/write, which is generally more common to normal computer usage.

It's a very decent cheap fast hard drive but for £2 more you can get a 500gb F3 which is as fast in real world situations and a good chunk more capacity (slightly slower than the F4 in long sequential read/write, roughly the same in random read/write)
Or for slightly less a 500gb Western Digital AAKS Caviar Blue, not as fast as the F3 or F4 still a decent drive for the cost.

The 500gb WD AALS Caviar Black is the fastest while still being semi-sane cost (not quite as fast as the F4 for sequential read/write but faster for Random read/write where it counts) but the price here jumps to £42

The differences we're talking hear are almost unnoticeable, you need to jump to a fast SSD to really see speed changes (I'm ignoring the VelociRaptor because a fast SSD is cheaper)