Is 5400rpm hard drive good enough for video playback?

hayashirice911 · 5 days

A normal 5400 RPM hard drive can read at 80MBytes/second. If you turn on statistics during a blu-ray you'll see that they peak at 40 MBits/second which is 5MBytes/second.

Bottom line - A 5400 RPM drive is 16x faster than you need even for demanding blu-rays. If your HDD is badly fragmented that 16x number drops but then why would you have a fragmented HDD?

NotLurkingAnymore · 10 days

no one follows personal sites.

This is the logic behind open social. You could just get a blog somewhere and it would function as your Facebook profile, people wouldn't need to actually visit your blog to see updates, think RSS.

mckirkus · 20 days

Capacity is becoming irrelevant. I use WMC as a HD DVR and I can't imagine I'll ever need to delete a show. The sweet spot is 256GB, that's all most people need so if their price drops below a 2TB HDD big manufacturers will start to switch.

mckirkus · 20 days

If I could edit my submission I would, so you can all put down your pitchforks. I didn't know Reddit would add that to my link. That's why.

mckirkus · 20 days

Wrong. RAM isn't used for caching writes to your HDD. An SSD will make a potentially large difference depending on how high the quality of the video is.

wfpoulet · 20 days

Unfortunately doesn't work with CableCard.

Lelldorianx · 21 days

Or you could RAID 0 four 256GB Crucuial M4s for $799 and get better performance if not reliability.

mckirkus · 21 days

Wow, price was almost cut in half in four months.

SeekingEnlightenment · 22 days

Running shoes are made out of antioxidants.

alllie · 24 days

The same reason we buy diamond rings. It's not about making a great investment.

In other words DeBeers = NAR.

TheGhostOfNoLibs · 25 days

Inflation adjusted median wages. Not much progress in 20 years:

http://knowledgecenter.csg.org/drupal/system/files/Median_Income_NYT.PNG

TheGhostOfNoLibs · 25 days

Corporations will do fine. The middle class, not so much. We define a healthy economy as one with GDP growth. That may need to change.

DoobieIsGood · 28 days

So many more people upvote than read the article.

mckirkus · 1 month

And here them come!

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5771/the-intel-ivy-bridge-core-i7-3770k-review

vvv · 1 month

If this non-broken corporate structure works then you should assume it would also work in the past. And the fact that it hasn't taken over as the defacto structure already means what exactly? Conspiracy?

childishbambina · 1 month

Really?

mastarem · 1 month

FTA:

"AMD delivered solid results in the first quarter"

"Net loss $590 million, loss per share $0.80, operating loss $580 million"

ananyo · 1 month

Either nature is leaning towards the methods employed by MedicalExpress.com or this is actually getting closer to happening. Here's the rub, FTA:

"But for the technique to be effective, the researchers need to show that they can expand the number of hair follicles that they are able to grow."

WhiteZero · 1 month

Your OS takes care of write caching? That's news to me? What happens when you have 16GiB of writes cached and you lose power?

random_digital · 1 month

You probably have your visuals turned up to the point that you're not getting much more than 60FPS. Turn off AA and you'll probably see it.

WhiteZero · 1 month

And this is why people generally recommend buying the biggest known-reliable SSD you can afford. I'm sticking to the Intel 320 or 330 SSDs for now.

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