- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Yea the bigger the size the more stuff it has to sort through. Kinda like trying to look up a name in a large phone book, compared to that of a smaller phonebook. Even though its all alphabetical it still takes longer (in a hard drives case its ordered, but still just takes longer).
And the speed is how fast the discs rotate. The speeds that are common today are 5400rpm, 7200rpm, 10,000rpm, and 15,000rpm (the 15,000rpms's are scsi drive mostly in high preformance servers). The seek time is always alot less and can load stuff alot faster. My friend has 2 western digital raptor 74 gigs (10,000rpm's), and its a huge difference. Windows loads in about half the time, and overall gaming is much quicker with shorter loading times.