new hard drive

**investigater** · 03-26-08, 02:00 PM

I want a fast responsive hard drive. Do i look for cache size and/or rpm speed? All i found at newegg was 7200 rpm hard drives but the cache varied. What does the cache do really?

**WileECyte** · 03-26-08, 02:22 PM

Cache is used to store pieces of data that are being read/written to the drive. The cache is much faster than a disk write so it speeds access times. RAM -> Cache -> HD is faster than RAM -> HD directly. The more cache, the better.

At any rate, most drives are 7200 RPM. Western Digital Raptors have 10k RPM drives, but you have to look at the cost-performance ratio. 150GB Raptors can cost twice as much

SATA comes in to 'speeds'. 1.5Gb/s and 3.0Gb/s. If your motherboard supports 3.0Gb/s SATA, then grab the faster of the two.

I bought a Seagate 3.0Gb/s SATA drive (250GB) for $60 which is half the price of what the 150GB WD Raptors were running at the time.

The 150GB Raptor runs $170 from Newegg currently. A 160GB Seagate is $51. You can get a 750GB Seagate for less than $170.

**Mcstrange** · 03-26-08, 03:51 PM

7200 speed with 8-16mb cache should do you more than fine.

I have a raptor, its sweet and I love its speed, but I dont know if I would buy another one - 500-750mb drives are pretty damn quick and you get far more space for the money.

**MaKe_OuT_33** · 03-26-08, 06:43 PM

i like my raptor at 10krpm and they have 15krpm drives out there. very fast. 7200 rpm is nice but i think a raptor is in order for you.

**RhysJD3** · 03-29-08, 12:48 AM

Are you willing to pay a premium on speed over space? Then a raptor is probably the way to go.

However, there are a lot of 7,200 rpms drives out there with 8 or 16 that perform very well for the money and are a lot less expensive.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage.html

**17271** · 06-25-11, 08:20 PM

If Left 4 Dead games had zombies biting at people, eating dead bodies on the ground, crawling around after their legs get blown off, with only a head shot to bring them down permanently. With blood, guts, body parts and brains all over the place.

With maybe 10x more zombies and horde rushes, along with the SWAT Team and Army helping you.

All online, including Versus mode. No voting, no friendly fire, no lag. All on No Mercy and new similar campaigns, maybe in the gritty parts of NYC and The New York City Subway. With Francis, Bill, Zoey and Louis. Maybe it could be a massively multiplayer online game.

**Mince** · 06-25-11, 09:02 PM

No. While improving the zombies aspect of the game might seem like a good idea, when you focus it ONLY on killing zombies and getting insane gore, it takes away from the balance between the "cooperation" and "zombies" parts. This game is a co-op zombie killing FPS, it's is as important to have fun while killing zombies as it is to work together. The zombies are fine now.

We have refuted your points about friendly fire and vote kicking so many times that I will not even go there (unless, you meant ALL voting?, like return to lobby, all talk, etc. If that's so, then I don't even need to explain how much of an idiot you are). You can't simply just get rid of lag. They can try to improve the servers, but you can never make any online game lag-free 100% of the time (at least I haven't heard of one).

City campaigns, just a preference. I prefer a mix of city campaigns and outdoor campaigns, or a mix of both.