ALL,

DEFINATLY GO WITH THE 7200RPM. Going with a 5400rpm or a 4200rpm hard drive is like going back to the Intel 486 Days!  Its like trying to surf your data on the Internet on a 56k modem!

Having below a 7200RPM hard drive is like having a Corvette Z06 body and technology but having a V6 or a V8 Mustang engine in it :smileyvery-happy:. Going to the 7200RPM is like it should, a fire breathing LS2 505 Horsepower hard drive!

Ever use a hard drive when the thinking light glows constantly?  Or try to copy, move, or open a file and the hard drive just thinks and thinks and thinks?  This is usually always because you have a slower hard drive.  A 7200RPM hard drive can process data so much faster and is so nice to use because its sooooo fast.  I promise you, that if you go to a 7200RPM hard drive and you have never had one - YOU WILL NEVER WANT TO GO BACK.  Its like going from a 56k modem to a 5MBPS High speed internet connection.  Who in the world would want to go back to dial up?  Switch to 7200RPM and YOU WILL BE HOOKED!

Another food for thought is that there were 4200RPM and 5400RPM hard drives back in the early and mid 90's!!  Back when 486 computers roamed and Intel's Pentium processor just started appearing.  Do you really want 11+ year old technology in your nice fast expensive computer?  There are 10,000RPM and EVEN 15,000 RPM hard drives in desktops and servers now.  So going below a 7200RPM is REALLY taking a step down.

Message Edited by i8000_coastal on 03-03-2006 12:22 AM