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Please Explain about GB/s and RPM on HDDs ???
I already know what someone is going to say, but money is tight and I just cannot afford a SSD at the present.
With that out of the way, without getting overly technical --- and thus way over my head ---, concerning HDDs, which is the most governing factor in how quick a system responds, GB/S rating or RPM rating ?
Considering booting up and running various programs (in this situation, file transfers and storage would not be an issue), all other factors being the same, which would make the machine more quick to respond, a 7200 RPM SATA 3.0 GB/S or a 5400 RPM SATA 6.0 GB/S ?
And, would the difference be noticeable to the average bear ?
Considering my most recent experience in having to replace the O/S in one of our machines, it put me to thinking; that machine has a single 2TB HDD with the O/S on one partition, photos on another partition, and everything else on a third partition.
I got the bright idea that, if I were to obtain two identical small capacity HDDs, say 160 GB or so, I could put the O/S, and ONLY the O/S on both of the small HDDs, one in the machine and the other ready to be put into action at a moments notice, and relegate the big 2TB HDD to being the secondary internal HDD; thus, whenever something goes awry, I don't have to mess around with making sure everything is safely backed up and whatnot, just plug and play.
Thanks for reading.