"219 years! They'd have to sue our great grand children!"
3 generations spanning 219 years? My grandparents are in their 70s, and they already have great grandchildren. It would seem w/ a new generation being born every 30 years (conservative guess in my family) that they'd have to sue our great-great-great-great-great grandchildren. Good luck RIAA.
That is quite true, but also there is a rough correlation between transfer rates and roational speed. There is also a correlation between rotational speed and seek times.
Example, using my DVD and hdd: Hdd transfer rate: 50mb/s; seek time: 12.1ms. DVD transfer rate: 6mb/s; seek time: 90ms.
It is quite obvious the hard drive is faster in all aspects. Transfer speed does matter, even though seek times matter much more.
Why don't we have DVD-RW? Probably because they are very slow. Current IDE drives are getting 50MB/s, while a 16x DVD drive only gets 6MB/s (or something close to that).
Considering the hard drive is by far the bigest system bottleneck, slowing things down by 16 times is likely to be a bad idea. Would you want to run all your apps off of optical media? I know I wouldn't. My hard drive is too slow as it is.
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"219 years! They'd have to sue our great grand children!"
3 generations spanning 219 years? My grandparents are in their 70s, and they already have great grandchildren. It would seem w/ a new generation being born every 30 years (conservative guess in my family) that they'd have to sue our great-great-great-great-great grandchildren. Good luck RIAA.
That is quite true, but also there is a rough correlation between transfer rates and roational speed. There is also a correlation between rotational speed and seek times.
:
Example, using my DVD and hdd
Hdd transfer rate: 50mb/s; seek time: 12.1ms.
DVD transfer rate: 6mb/s; seek time: 90ms.
It is quite obvious the hard drive is faster in all aspects. Transfer speed does matter, even though seek times matter much more.
Why don't we have DVD-RW? Probably because they are very slow. Current IDE drives are getting 50MB/s, while a 16x DVD drive only gets 6MB/s (or something close to that).
Considering the hard drive is by far the bigest system bottleneck, slowing things down by 16 times is likely to be a bad idea. Would you want to run all your apps off of optical media? I know I wouldn't. My hard drive is too slow as it is.
Chieftec's cases are the same as Antecs... but I will agree that their cases are the best (for the money?).