5900 vs 7200 RPM

[Giskard]

Hi guys im planning to buy 2 x Tb hdd to use as raid 0. Im going to use them just as a file server, HD movies and series, programs (I use oracle products) and maybe some games.

Is there any difference between a 5900 rpm hdd vs a 7200 rpm for this kind of use?

And btw what brand should I buy seagate, hitachi, wd, samsung? I cant find one with more than 50% good reviews, so Im a bit confused.

Thanks!

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

first of all you mean 5400rpm not 5900 lol

and for file servers access rates aswell as transfer rates are the most important things most people worry about, you need to store those gigs and gigs of data quickly, and not spend hours transferring a movie

if i had to rate it from my personal opinion starting from best: wd,seagate,hitachi and samsung; samsung gets last place as i had issues with it in the past, quite fragile aswell, wd never failed me

 

[Josh Weston]

first of all you mean 5400rpm not 5900 lol

Seagate drives have a 5900 rpm offering. I'm guessing this is where he was getting his info from.

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

Seagate drives have a 5900 rpm offering. I'm guessing this is where he was getting his info from.

ohh ive actually never heard of 5900's, i know there are the servers 10k ones but never heard of 5900. I just learned something

ty kind sire

 

[SPS]

So are they going to be just used a storage? Not in an actual server?

 

[dugdiamond]

if you are going to RAID them, then there is obviously a reason why you are doing this..... SPEED

so, why go for slower drives !!!!

 

[sheroo]

If you're going to build a file server RAID 0 is a terrible idea. You double your chances of loosing your data, one disk failure and you've lost all your data. Any drive currently on the market is capable of streaming HD movies - don't see the point in raiding them.

 

[Rastalovich]

5x00 are, in general, "green" targeted drives. Lower power and so forth.

A lot of the 7200 drives these days are "up-to" 7200, when you read up on them, they may state that normal operations are between 5400 and 7200. Unlike the older days where 7200 meant 7200.

WD fanboi here.

If you're going to raid them on one computer and access them over a network, it shouldn't make any difference which you get as you're limited to your network speed in any case. I have 2x Win7 based computers on a network, with no raiding, that max at around 90mb speeds, that tend to settle down to 50/60. In this case having green ones makes little difference. If they're raided they'd probably still be around 90 peak and settle 60 ish cos of the network.

Imo, if your file server is going to be on alot and not necessarily feeding movies all the time or handling alot of traffic constantly, I'd use green.

Raid 0 on the other side of a network isn't worth it.

 

[Rastalovich]

Ok I can't edit that, what I said about the 7200 speeds going between 5400 and 7200 - I didn't mean every 7200 rated drive is like this.

 

[Giskard]

Thanks guys!

Sorry I was very busy at work...

In the end yesterday I bought a Seagate 2TB 7200, so far is fast and quiet....

 

[SubTract]

to be honest get yourself a decent raid card, go with a bunch of SAS drives on a raid 5. You then get good performance, Incredible reliability and if a drive dies you can rebuild your data. It is significantly more upfront but its definitely worth it for a file server you don't want to lose all your data.