Harddrive question!!!

[CollegeDJ]

Great, so i found out today my harddrive is only 5400rpms, I was told at guitar center it has to be at least 7200 rpms, so i think my studio idea is shot....?

 

[Rstiltskin]

guess what drives were BEFORE 7200rpm came along...

Great, so i found out today my harddrive is only 5400rpms, I was told at guitar center it has to be at least 7200 rpms, so i think my studio idea is shot....?

5400 rpm, and before that? 3600 rpm.

sure the faster the better, but if this is a laptop, about all that is out there is 5400 rpm drives, 7200 are just making an appearance, and a lot of recording gets done on laptops!

you can:

go ahead as is (my advice)

get a 7200 rpm drive as a second data drive(actually this might be my advice)

or get another 5400 rpm drive and set themup in a raid 0 array and get increased thruput (actually, not so good advice, but would work)

and lastly--don't listen to fuckheads at a music shop about computer shit, if you have to pm me, i will at least tell you i don't know instead of making shit up(if I don't know, that is)

 

[Dogman]

Great, so i found out today my harddrive is only 5400rpms, I was told at guitar center it has to be at least 7200 rpms, so i think my studio idea is shot....?

That shouldn't matter for most things. Your hardrive will not be seeking most of the time when using the pc, so it will not need to be spinning at that hi rate constantly. 5400 simply means it is spinning slower when seeking for info, and that means it will take a little longer to find it. When you think about it though, you are talking milliseconds, not seconds. The bottleneck for a pc is going to be in the MB somewhere. RAM, or processor, or just an overall slow configuration. Your pc can't write info to the hardrive fast enough to overrun it.
Ed

 

[reshp1]

I agree with not listening to anything the drooling impeciles at GC tell you, about anything.
5400 will work just fine, you might not have as high as a track count, but it will work. If you do get one, do not replace the old one, use both. set up the new drive to store your audio files and the old drive for your apps and OS. That saves the audio drive from having to stop streaming audio to do work for the application programs.

 

[aaroncomp]

I think it would help also if you could give us some specs of what programs you wish to run, what your entire computer setup is, and what your goals are.