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.
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No, the speed of the hard drive depends on the rpms the hard drive runs at. RAM has nothing to do with it.
Fast speeds on a hard drive are important if the drive is going to used for gaming. The average speed of a hard is around 7500 rpms. If it is being used for gaming, a faster hard drive with speeds of upto 10000 rpms should be used.
It depends on the make and model of the Hard Drive. Normally the spin speed does control how fast you can access a certain part of a track, but it also depends on how fast your seek time it. If you have poor seek time, your rotation speed doesnt mean anything.
I don't know, you tell me!
The capacity of the hard drive has no bearing on performance. The rotational speed of the drive, as well as the size of it's cache, however, do often have a noticeable impact.
Spindle speed is very important. Don't accept less than a 7200 RPM spindle speed.
For Raid 5 all the hard drives have to be of the same speed.
Only as fast as its CPU. Doesn't matter the size of the hard drive - the hard drive does not determine processor speed.
It is likely to depend on the speed of the external hard drive, although most newer external hard drives have a reasonable speed, so it is likely you will be fine wi th using an external hard drive.
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