[royewest]

Anyone have any data on drive speed and audio performance? In other words, are there any performance implications of a 4200 rpm drive for storing music files versus a higher speed drive?

 

[error401]

Audio data is heavily buffered in multiple places in memory before actually being played. Even the slowest hard drives are far faster than redbook quality PCM requires.

It will make no difference whatsoever, we're entirely in the digital domain here.