"somebody" <x### [at] ycom> writes:

> I guess you do get the performance somewhat in line with the rpm, but even
> though I have amassed copious amounts of data due to my obsessive compulsive
> habit of keeping all revisions of all code, models, images, renderings, and
> documents, the amount of data I access on a daily basis is relatively small
> and I'm not concerned with waiting a few extra seconds or minutes per day
> for saving/loading. Plus the price difference between 5400 and 7200 drives

If it were a case of only when _I_ intentionally access data, then it
would not be a big deal. My experience when I switched (almost 10 years
ago) was that so many other things got a lot faster. It gave more or
less the illusion that the whole computer had gotten faster. Then I
realized how much a bottleneck disk I/O could be. The disk is accessed a
lot, apparently.

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