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Response to Barracuda or Cheetah? How much speed is necessary?

from Chris Penney (penney@fnol.net)
I would have to say go with SCSI. Either harddrive is good (they are both AV rated) but from experience, spend the extra dollars and get a good harddrive. In terms of necessary speed, make sure you have nothing less then a 7200 rpm, 8ms seek time, and a 33MB data transfer rate. Anything less would cause frame drops and other serious problems. I use a 9.1GB IBM Ultrastar, 10,000rpm, 5.3ms and it is fabulous. Go to www.onsale.com and save yourself a bundle on these harddrives.
(posted 9183 days ago)

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