firewire hard drive / seek time

[wthompson23]

hi all.

should i be concerned with the "ms seek time" when shopping for a hard disk? i know i need a 7200 rpm, but don't know whether there is a meaningful difference between 8.5ms and 11ms when using ptle. any help is appreciated. thanks and have a great night.

will

[Slim Shady]

The smaller the number for seek time the better, but in general any 7200rpm drive should be fine. Most of them have a seek time around 9ms which is plenty. Just make sure the firewire enclosure uses the Oxford911 chipset, or you'll be out of luck using it with PTLE.

[wthompson23]

ok. thanks.

[tha k man]

The cache on the hard drive will make a big difference. You get much better performance from 8Mb cache HD's.

[where02190]

Having tried all the major brands, we've settled on using the WD Caviar 8mb cache drives for speed, and the IBM/Hitachi 8mb cache drives for quietness. Both perform excellent, the WD is as noted very fast, the IBM/HIT not far behind it, but a ton quieter.