10,000 rpm HD in Mac Pro

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nealt

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Has anyone placed one of these hard disks into a Mac Pro? IS it much noisier than a 7200 rpm disk? Do you notice any speed improvement in boot times, program loading times, etc?
 
Not sure about it being noisier, but I imagine that it would be hotter, since spinning at a higher speed would generate more heat. However, I imagine the Mac Pro should handle it fine.

It would definitely be faster than a 7200 RPM drive, but other factors are in order such as drive cache size.
 
Since those 10,000 rpm drives are faster at everything (seek time, read/write throughput, etc.) than their 7,200 rpm brethren, it goes without saying that everything that is related to disk activity would be faster -- loading, writing, reading, booting, etc. Everything will be faster. To what extent, though, remains to be seen -- and whether or not some of those speed increases are even perceivable.
 
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