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Revolutions Per Minute for a computer HDD indicates the speed of HDD in terms of the revolutions the HDD platters makes in one minute. Disks rotating at faster speeds can read write/access data from disk faster compared to slower disks.

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RPM stands for "revolutions per minute".

Although a term commonly associated with vehicles, it's also used when describing standard mechanical hard drives.

Common speeds for HDD's (hard disk drives) include 5400RPM, 7200RPM, 1400RPM (performance drives).

This means that the hard drive is capable of spinning the platter (the disk that holds your data) up to 7200 times per minute (which calculates to 120 revolutions per second!)

The faster the RPM's, generally speaking, the faster the hard drive (data transfer).

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I think it means RATE PER MINUTE so like its how fast and object is moving

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RPM stands for Revolutions Per Minute

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