WD3200AAKS Access time

[Sem]

i just bought a WD 320GB AAKS SATA drive and im disappointed with the access time

the drive will be used for game install only and will be partitioned right down the middle with my favourite & new games on the first partiton and old/rarely played games & demos on the second

think with such high access it will affect performance/loading times

should i sell the drive and take a small loss and get something else?

 

[ScYcS]

Dude.....you're talking about MILLIseconds. The sustained transfer rate is about 3 trillion times more important than the random access time.

Keep the drive.

 

[Lazn_Work]

Access time matters for many small writes (more so than transfer rate) transfer rate matters for long sequential reads/writes.. Because the OS reads and writes from it's install all the time, for your OS drive you want low access time, for your data drive you want a high transfer rate as you only use it when loading a game / writing a file etc.

 

[ScYcS]

unless you put a raptor or a SCSI or SAS drive in there, your access times will always be in the 12-15ms range.....

 

[Lazn_Work]

True, I have a Raptor OS drive and 7200.9 games drive (will probably be replacing the .9 with a .11 soon)

 

[-=Antimatter=-]

It's fine, keep it.

I like mine, but it's no raptor. I came from a 74GB WD740ADFD and I love the extra space.

 

[Sem]

Access time matters for many small writes (more so than transfer rate) transfer rate matters for long sequential reads/writes.. Because the OS reads and writes from it's install all the time, for your OS drive you want low access time, for your data drive you want a high transfer rate as you only use it when loading a game / writing a file etc.

ok thx for the advice i was just worried as it was 4ms higher than my old drive but the average read is alot higher and since most game installs use large files i guess it shouldnt matter much now

already have 150GB Velociraptor for my OS and programs