Flippant Remarks about Hard Disk Drives
My break with the false security of Dell provoked me to update my view of hard drives. Once the subject of computer hardware was put on the table, the table gets bigger. First I need to get my inches right: there are the 3.5" drives I have been using in recent years (for desktops) and, now, there are the 2.5" drives for notebook computers and Mini-ITX desktops.
My previous post about my trusty WD Passport made the use of an external 2.5" drive a daily necessity. For years, my FireWire external drive in the Fantom Titanium series stood in the background as my 3.5" external drive. This drive was to be the first of many FireWire devices for my forays into motion picture production—and still picture production (like those planned for projects like MOTF). More on this later or I die trying…
It does make sense that I would invest in 2.5" external drives just for their small size. But 3.5" external drives would come from the need to preserve drives in service that are currently used as internal devices (connected to my microATX board). So this means a 3.5" kit like the VANTEC NST-360UF-BK Aluminum 3.5" USB & 1394 External Enclosure is important to me.
A few more points:
- “How higher RPM hard drives rip you off”
- “Why 7200 RPM Mobile Hard Disk Drives?”: “Performance Improvements with 7200 RPM Increasing the spindle speed to 7200 RPM, assuming BPI is held constant, will improve the data rate by 71% over 4200 RPM drives and 33% over 5400 RPM drives. Latency will be improved by 42% and 25% respectively…”