7200 rpm is quite common.
An SAS hard drive has many high performance advantages over a SATA drive. The main thing that makes it better is the speed. A typical SATA drive operates at 7200 RPM, yet a typical SAS drive operates at 10,000 or 15,000 RPM.
The RPM of your hard drive. A 7000RPM drive is faster than a 5000RPM drive, and an SSD is faster than all Platter hard drives.
That is entirely dependent upon the speed of the hard drive, if the other hard drive has a higher RPM, or read/write time, then yes it will.
When loading things from the HDD, like streamin music, videos, ect, but for a consle its not important, if your at 5,400 rpm a 7,200 rpm will only speed up a little.
B. 2,500 rpm
B. 2,500 rpm
Currently the fastest speeds are 10000 rpm for most available Hard drives. This only generally indicates that a HDD is superior, although you'd not pick a 5400 rpm drive because it would be slow.
Common current values are 5400 rpm, 7200 rpm, and 10000 rpm. However, these are not the only possible values.
Most commonly reffered to would be RPM - Rounds Per Minute. The speed of which it is rotating.
LaCie offers more than one external hard drive with 1TB of disk space. According to the product specifications on the LaCie website, most of the 1TB external hard drives have a rotational speed of 5400 per minute.
Hard disks rotate constantly at high speed from 5000 to 15,000 rpm.
Speed and size are the best friends of multimedia. You will want a 7200 rpm hard drive and the largest size (GBs) drive you can afford. If you want an external drive and have a FireWire connection on your computer, that is much more preferrable than USB due to its speed.