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Hard Drive speed difference
- Thread starter crazycat
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Go for the faster drive. Spend the difference on a large Firewire external drive for backup and storage. 4200 is pretty dreadful in performance - rogh estimate 25% slower than 5400 but this varies with the type of reads and writes you are doing.