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Does hardrive speed affect MME at all?
rackoon:
I am getting ready to buy a harddrive for my MAME only computer that I am putting together by scratch.
Im looking at a ata 100, 133, and a Sata 150 at 7200 and with 80gb.
only the Sata 150 is not new, it is refurbished and I worry about that.
Regardless, How much is any of these going to affect MAME.
:cheers:
JustMichael:
They will affect load times from the hard drive only. Since it takes only a split second to load a game, the difference won't be noticable. I agree with staying away from "refurbished" hard drives. Even with the "chd" games, the hard drives of today produce less delay than those old ones that used to be in the machine.
krick:
Not sure what kind of hardware you have or what operating system you plan on using but personally, I only buy PATA (parallel ATA) drives 120GB or less because that's what works with Windows 98SE.
Win98SE only supports up to 137GB due to bugs in scandisk and defrag. Since they don't make 137GB drives, 120GB is the biggest you can go.
SATA driver support in 98SE is also kinda sketchy so just to be safe, I stick with traditional (parallel) ATA drives, like ATA100 and ATA133.
As for your speed question, I seriously doubt you'll be able to see any measurable difference between drive speeds when it comes to MAME load times. I'd just look for reliable and cheap (in that order).
sirwoogie:
Find the most inexpensive one that works with the interface your motherboard has, has the space requirements you need, and from the vendor you like (my top right now is Seagate).
Dealnews always keeps a good list of the drives, some with rebates, some without. Check out their listing
As JM pointed out, the speed of the drive is really inconsequential to the performance of MAME.
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: krick on June 18, 2006, 12:10:25 am ---Win98SE only supports up to 137GB due to bugs in scandisk and defrag. Since they don't make 137GB drives, 120GB is the biggest you can go.
--- End quote ---
That's simply not the case at all!...... I have two 160Gig hard drives running under windows 98SE with no problems.
What I think you mean is that Win98SE won't support partitions bigger than 137Gigs in size. So you can actually have much larger hard drives as long as you partition them into logical drives each smaller than 137Gigs.
Scandisk and Defrag then have no problem with them at all!
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
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