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by Member 35459284

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I am looking into purchasing a new server to upgrade out existing File & Print.
My question involves the hard drives, there are 2 configs involving the speeds.
1 drive config is Hot swappable SCSI 10000RPM and the other config is for
Hot swappable SCSI 15000RPM. The latter drive is twice the price for the
same drive capacity(36GB). Is there a significant difference in data transfer
with the faster harddrive speed, or would it be almost unnoticeable.
I'm also concerned about the price too because I must also allocate
OS license pricing and dont want to over spend on hardware and come up short on Software and licenses.

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by ann777

You're talking $700 for a 15,000 RPM 36 GB SCSI drive versus $220-300 for 10,000 RPM. I wouldn't pay the extra bucks for that increase in RPMs -- not unless it got me more GBs or some other advantage.

The RPM speed differential might be noticeable with SCSI and the ultra-fast controllers, but if you can use the money elsewhere, than I think (as you obviously suspect) that you'd be wise to forego that extra cost.

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