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Some Questions.
jms_209:
I will need to get a 7200rpm one.
Everywhere I hear that I should get update my 5400rpm.
Since It could become a bottleneck,but since I have a laptop,it might not matter too much.
Krudda:
Unless you plan to make it internal, get 7200, the faster it spins, the more area the head can cover per second.
If you have the money and a scsi adaptor, get a 10,000 rpm drive
pantywraith:
7200 rpm drives are hard to find in laptop size (2.5 inch). That space (small performance drives) has been taken over by SSD's.
Most USB based drives are also 5400 rpm or less. However if all you are doing is storing anime on them, then it will not matter much. The faster speed rating helps with seeks and random read/writes. For video archives the metric you want is sequential read/write speed. Most external USB drives can handle this just fine. I have several here that I have used for this and even when playing super high bit-rate 1080p crf 13 encodes there is no problem.
If you need performance and the sizes of ssd's are to small, then you need an external enclosure that does eSATA or NAS box. Your laptop will need an eSATA port for that to work, but it is the cheapest of the two. A NAS box works best when plugged into an Gigabit Ethernet port, but WiFi will work in a pinch. You can get all of these at Newegg, but good quality NAS boxes will run you as much or more than a new laptop.
Krudda:
Whoa CRF 13, somebody is doing something wrong, you should never need to go below 15.
Anyway, I would like to know your source about USB HDDs mostly being 5400rpm, every single external I own (thats a lot) have 7200's in them.
megido-rev.M:
Some lower grade internal HDDs are 5400rpm as well, fyi.
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