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Which iMac for Adobe?
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<blockquote data-quote="Exodist" data-source="post: 1564051" data-attributes="member: 284358"><p>Yea your both sorta correct if the drive it's self is being the media that the data is being recorded directly on to to an extent and I will explain below. However if its recorded say in a digital video cam or a DSLR. Then no a 5400 is still perfectly fine as you will already be dealing with compressed data. </p><p></p><p>When 7200RPM drives first came out, most were marketed as A/V or Multimedia drives and featured UDMA66 and then UDMA100, but never the less those new 7200RPM drives had a thru output of about 33 to 40 MB/s. Which is what made them applicable for A/V use. The 5400RPM drives at that time were still lagging behind and although newer models came with UDMA66 interfaces, they still had slow thru outputs of about 12-22MB/s making them struggle as A/V drives unless crammed into a RAID Array.</p><p></p><p>Now lets move a little forward to, today.. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Todays modern economy HDDs (let say WD Blue and Green models), while they feature up to SATA6, regardless of 5400 or 7200RPM. They still have a sustained transfer rate of about ~90MB/s. The only key difference is in data seeks times. Which is usually about 20m/s vs. 12m/s respectively. 8m/s isn't noticeable for most desktop use.</p><p></p><p>Hope this sheds light on my reasoning <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Cheers, </p><p>Joe</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Exodist, post: 1564051, member: 284358"] Yea your both sorta correct if the drive it's self is being the media that the data is being recorded directly on to to an extent and I will explain below. However if its recorded say in a digital video cam or a DSLR. Then no a 5400 is still perfectly fine as you will already be dealing with compressed data. When 7200RPM drives first came out, most were marketed as A/V or Multimedia drives and featured UDMA66 and then UDMA100, but never the less those new 7200RPM drives had a thru output of about 33 to 40 MB/s. Which is what made them applicable for A/V use. The 5400RPM drives at that time were still lagging behind and although newer models came with UDMA66 interfaces, they still had slow thru outputs of about 12-22MB/s making them struggle as A/V drives unless crammed into a RAID Array. Now lets move a little forward to, today.. :) Todays modern economy HDDs (let say WD Blue and Green models), while they feature up to SATA6, regardless of 5400 or 7200RPM. They still have a sustained transfer rate of about ~90MB/s. The only key difference is in data seeks times. Which is usually about 20m/s vs. 12m/s respectively. 8m/s isn't noticeable for most desktop use. Hope this sheds light on my reasoning :) Cheers, Joe [/QUOTE]
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