Yes, the higher the number, the faster the data access time. But beware of the "cheapest drive" price. I hate to lose data!! ;) mikey On Sep 25, 2005, at 1:01 PM, titanium- request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote: Does the drive speed affect how fast your computer will run? 7200rpm Does the rpm stand for rotations per minute? And so buying a drive at 5400 or 4200 is buying a much slower drive, hence slower processing? I'm asking not telling. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/titanium/attachments/20050925/50b248a8/attachment.html