Quote Originally Posted by Meta View Post
I haven't actually used a 10k RPM drive, but it can't be that much faster than any given 7200 RPM drive to make it worth 4 or more times more money for the same amount of space (looking at the 300 gb one). I'm a frugal motherfucker though, so whatever. If that's what you're willing to spend...
I think the Hard Drive's RPM speed (read/write really) and obsolete software are the biggest bottlenecks today, everyone has these massive processors, 8 gigs of dual channel high clock speed RAM.

But they have to wait for the hard drive to ramp up in RPM to get going, plus all this old software that was written for Win 95/98 that can only go so fast, no matter if you have a 800Mhz processor or a 3.2Ghz