I mean, I could see the seek time being faster with an external 7200rpm, but does this really help much when the data is crawling along slowly through a cable?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my thinking here would be that the 7200 rpm wouldn't really help much considering the Firewire and USB transfer rate bottleneck. Are there benchmarks somewhere showing a sizeable performance increase of external 7200 rpms over 5400 rpms?
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I mean, I could see the seek time being faster with an external 7200rpm, but does this really help much when the data is crawling along slowly through a cable?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my thinking here would be that the 7200 rpm wouldn't really help much considering the Firewire and USB transfer rate bottleneck. Are there benchmarks somewhere showing a sizeable performance increase of external 7200 rpms over 5400 rpms?