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5400RPM vs 7200RPM over FireWire 800
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2.5" S-ATA HDDS with 5400RPM can deliver up to 75-80 MB/s, 2.5" S-ATA HDDS with 7200RPM can get up to 95-105 MB/s, Firewire 800 can get up to 75MB/s, but stays more around 65MB/s, thus my conclusion, that a 5400RPM HDD will be okay with FW800.
Or are you talking about 3.5" HDDs?
Btw, the bigger the HDD capacity on small HDDs, the faster they are, as a 320GB 2.5" HDD with 5400RPM isn't as dense as a 500GB or 750GB 2.5" HDD with 5400RPM.
Or are you talking about 3.5" HDDs?
Btw, the bigger the HDD capacity on small HDDs, the faster they are, as a 320GB 2.5" HDD with 5400RPM isn't as dense as a 500GB or 750GB 2.5" HDD with 5400RPM.
The primary advantage of faster spinning HDD is lower head seek time thanks to lower rotational latency. Therefore for certain workloads (accessing small files) it makes sense to use the faster disk even on slower interface. The interface speed may limit the maximum sustained speed (like when transferring large files from and to disk of its bufferr).