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5400rpm vs 7200 rpm Hard Drives

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As a storage drive, Yeah it work fine. Use em all the time for backup drives or files that I only need once in a blue moon.
As a drive you record straight to.... I'd think it be fine? Even old WD Greens were able to have sequential writes of ~70MB/s and should be fast enough for recording all but the highest quality video.
If your gonna be editing that video from the drive... Speed is always nice. I mean there is a reason LTT used a 24 SSD server.

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So I'm looking for a second hard drive to record game play to, and I'm wondering if I will see any difference between the two speeds? This will just be a storage drive and won't have any other programs running off it. Thanks.

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just grab a 7200rpm, 5400 can be pretty slow.

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There is absolutely zero reason go to with a 5400rpm drive outside of prebuilts that used the slowest drives avaliable. 

 

 

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1 minute ago, Mooshi said:

There is absolutely zero reason go to with a 5400rpm drive outside of prebuilts that used the slowest drives avaliable. 

WD reds are 5400RPM

 

the 2TB model is probably the drive to get, you could get a 3TB Red for the price of a 2TB Black drive
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9wW9TW/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd20efrx

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5400 are slower but use less power and can be cheaper. it will be ok for just multimedia recording. there will be no advantage of 7200 rpm for what you have described

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3 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

In my experience, if you can get an SSD for the price difference then it isn't worth it.

he wants to record games, no programs running off it. SSD is not cost effective

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44 minutes ago, EminentSun said:

So I'm looking for a second hard drive to record game play to, and I'm wondering if I will see any difference between the two speeds? This will just be a storage drive and won't have any other programs running off it. Thanks.

How often do you write to the drive?

How big are the files?

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32 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

WD reds are 5400RPM

 

the 2TB model is probably the drive to get, you could get a 3TB Red for the price of a 2TB Black drive
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9wW9TW/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd20efrx

 

WD Greens are also 5400RPM, they are built that way mainly for power consumption.

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As a storage drive, Yeah it work fine. Use em all the time for backup drives or files that I only need once in a blue moon.
As a drive you record straight to.... I'd think it be fine? Even old WD Greens were able to have sequential writes of ~70MB/s and should be fast enough for recording all but the highest quality video.
If your gonna be editing that video from the drive... Speed is always nice. I mean there is a reason LTT used a 24 SSD server.

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