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Re: How Important is Hard Drive Speed with 2000i?



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>I need to replace the main drive I use with 2000i, IB TWS, and MetaServer
>RT. Will it matter if I get a 10,000 rpm SATA Raptor drive, or is the normal
>7500 rpm ATA drive (with 8 MB cache) good enough? I don't trade off tick
>charts, but do run five minute charts on about twenty symbols.

Personally I think the bottleneck is the I/O throughput of your data
feed, not the throughput of a 7500 rpm hard disk (which is pretty fast).

-A