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Im looking to buy a new hard drive for my gaming rig and looking at various benchmarks it seems that some lower capacity hard drives have a higher average/max throughput but much slower access times than their higher capacity counterparts.
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 320gb = 99.2 MB/s Avg Read throughput
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750gb = 82.3 MB/s Avg Read throughput - almost 25% slower
But the Random Access Time for the 320gb = 17.10ms
For the 750gb = 12.20ms - almost 50% faster
I realize that once you get to 1TB and bigger hard drives that you get the best of both worlds, but 1TB is really overkill for what i use.
What i would like to know is how much of an effect access time actually has on real world gaming performance. I mean were talking about miliseconds here ( 0.001 of a second!) . And also what would be more important, higher throughput or lower access time?
I don't have alot of money to spend on a new hdd and am mainly looking for bang for buck performance. Capacity isnt a concern, id rather a faster 320gb drive than a slower 750gb drive. 320gb will actually be more than enough, ive lasted the last 4 years with one 74gb Raptor
i just delete games as i install new ones.
The Seagate 7200.11 320gb 'Cuda looks good, the only thing stopping me from buying it now is the relativley slow access time.
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 320gb = 99.2 MB/s Avg Read throughput
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750gb = 82.3 MB/s Avg Read throughput - almost 25% slower
But the Random Access Time for the 320gb = 17.10ms
For the 750gb = 12.20ms - almost 50% faster
I realize that once you get to 1TB and bigger hard drives that you get the best of both worlds, but 1TB is really overkill for what i use.
What i would like to know is how much of an effect access time actually has on real world gaming performance. I mean were talking about miliseconds here ( 0.001 of a second!) . And also what would be more important, higher throughput or lower access time?
I don't have alot of money to spend on a new hdd and am mainly looking for bang for buck performance. Capacity isnt a concern, id rather a faster 320gb drive than a slower 750gb drive. 320gb will actually be more than enough, ive lasted the last 4 years with one 74gb Raptor
i just delete games as i install new ones.The Seagate 7200.11 320gb 'Cuda looks good, the only thing stopping me from buying it now is the relativley slow access time.