MC server on 5400rpm or 7200rpm hdd

Hi all,

Currently i am running a small server on a 5400rpm disk with only 8mb of buffer cache, but i was wondering how much of a performance gain it will be if i would place it to a 7200rpm disk with 32mb buffer cache?
Anyone could tell me wat one would be better and how much performance gain i could expect and why?
I am an IT graduate and usually hardware was my kind of thing, but after 2 years on mac i dont have to worry about upgrading my hardware every 6 months to stay on track with performance )haters gone hate), and i didnt know that much abouth the RPM and Buffer cache about HDDs anyways, so any help is much apriciated.

The thing is, i run the server on the 5400rpm disk now whitch is the boot disk for UBUNTU so its formatted for linux, but my 7200rpm disk are from a previous server with lots of data i cant store somewhere els to format my disks to a linux format, SO these 7200rpm disk are still NTFS who i have loaded with a smb protocol on UBUNTU so i can use them and share them, will placing my MC server on a 7200rpm disk whitch are not linux formated, and run the mc server under ubuntu of one of these disk not compramize the performance?


specs:
ubuntu 10.04 (yup)
c2d e6250 @ 2,66ghz
4gb ddr2 667mhz
5400rpm hdd, 8mb buffer, linux format (vs 7200rpm, 32mb buffer, ntfs!)

any information would be apriciated! thanks.

 

Are you strictly limited to an HDD upgrade?

This is like going from a bicycle to a scooter traveling on a highway. You want a car.

 

You're a IT major and you got a mac..........I won't even...

Anyways, the Core 2 Duo is pretty weak and I don't think a hard drive upgrade would really improve performance, with that CPU.

 

Minecraft is very HDD intensive. I think the upgrade will make a lot of difference. However, maybe you should invest a bit more and get an SSD drive with backups to your current HDD.

On a side note, in your "Just Craft" banner, what font are the words "Just Craft" written in? I love it!

 

I lol'ed

And go for the 7200 rpm hdd and just format it in ext3/4 or so.

 

Invest in more RAM and run a RAMDisk.

 

I'm a Computer Science Graduate, and my job title is Software Engineer, and I have a mac (and several Linux boxes. But my primary machine is a Mac). Many others on my course, and several of my colleagues, are also mac users. Personally I like having a Unix core with layers above it that don't have as many hiccups and driver oddities as Linux often does when you start playing around with the internals.

 

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