I was rounding.....sry to mislead all of you.
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I was rounding.....sry to mislead all of you.
Oh, sorry for misunderstanding. lol (Oops). To answer the correct question: I would have to say yes and no. You will always have to wait when you open a file... that has to do with not only the speed of the harddisk, but the RAM and the CPU as well. If you have a ATA/133MB/s drive (with a motherboard that supports transfers at that speed), with a large amount of cache, this process will definately be faster, but never (at least not with current technology) instantaneous. As for starting Kazaa, I am assuming you're asking about the way that it searches your specified folders for new files to share when you start the program... depending on the number of files you have, this may take a long time or a short time. I personally have no wait because, first off, I don't share any folders with anyone, and secondly, the download folder I use (which is what is searched when you start the program) is always empty. Hope that answers your question.
AJ
No need to be sorry, azn_acid. I was just wondering 'cuz I was excited I could start buying larger drives. :-) As I said, though, I may be wrong. I just didn't think that they had been able to get around the current ATA limitations yet (at least not feasibly).
AJ
Thanks azn, I am gonna buy western digital though. Adven, how mean of you not to share. I guess I am gonna try it out with 7200rpm, and if its slow, I'll just post crap all over my site about how it sucks. Thanks guys.
I would share, but I don't really have anything useful to share. I usually hop onto KaZaA to check out a few songs to ensure that I'm not wasting my money buying a CD because I like one or two songs which I heard on the radio. Once I'm satisfied (or dissatisfied) with the songs, I remove them and make my purchasing decision. I don't have any songs or programs which I could share.
AJ
Western Digital: Good.
Maxtor: Slower than Western although same space and speed.
Don't remember what website, it was about a few months ago that I read it.
That reminds me, I need more space. thx for reminding me.
correct me if im wrong;
i always believed that 7200 was the fastest you can get on ide, and anything faster was a raid
What is a raid?
It's a different configuration type than IDE (ATA) offer. There are multiple forms for RAID, usually attributed to SCSI drives. It basically allows for redundancy between drives. My servers have U160 RAID-5 configurations. Below is a link where you can learn everything you want to know about RAID.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html
AJ
Spirit: I think you have your terms somewhat mixed up. Generally, RAID refers simply to the configuration of the drives, not the rpms at which the drive runs. SCSI drives can run at higher rpms than IDE drives (many are 10,000 rpms, while the max on IDEs is 7,200). Hope that clarifies a little. See the link above for more info about RAID.
AJ