Intel Optane with SATA II HDD

[warzkaz]

I am running out of storage and I need to buy a new HDD for games , I have seen how much Optane can improve load times.
So I have decided to get HDD and Optane

Since I am going to accelerate it with Optane should I save some money and buy a cheap refurbished 2tb SATA II HDD 
or get expensive SATA III HDD?

[Constantin]

1 hour ago, warzkaz said:

Since I am going to accelerate it with Optane should I save some money and buy a cheap refurbished 2tb SATA II HDD 
or get expensive SATA III HDD?

The best are the black ones that run at 7200RPM

Or any other one brand that run at 7200RPM

[warzkaz]

Just now, Constantin said:

The best are the black ones that run at 7200RPM

Or any other one brand that run at 7200RPM

The SATA II is 7200 RPM and The SATA III is 5400 RPM

[Constantin]

1 hour ago, warzkaz said:

The SATA II is 7200 RPM and The SATA III is 5400 RPM

regardless of  the Sata connection, Storage drive (Green) and some other run at 5400

And Black, gold ect.. Run at 7200RPM

Those are drive speeds that have nothing to do with the Sata connection!

[Spotty]

17 minutes ago, warzkaz said:

buy a cheap refurbished 2tb SATA II HDD 

No. Not worth the money. If it uses SATA II interface it is probably 10+ years old. HDDs don't last forever and you're going to be risking your data and when it does eventually fail you're going to need to spend more money on a new drive anyway.

Just buy a new HDD. Doesn't need to be anything fancy, it's just a HDD after all. You can get a Seagate Barracuda 2TB for $60.

Keep in mind that Optane might not provide a great deal of benefit for accelerating a games drive. Depending on the game you might not even see any benefit between HDD, HDD (optane accelerated), or even SSD.

 

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... Optane? Hope you're planning on using it in a different system.
 

15 minutes ago, Constantin said:

The best are the black ones that run at 7200RPM

WD Blacks are way overpriced. Not even worth considering imo.

[warzkaz]

4 minutes ago, Spotty said:

No. Not worth the money. If it uses SATA II interface it is probably 10+ years old. HDDs don't last forever and you're going to be risking your data and when it does eventually fail you're going to need to spend more money on a new drive anyway.

Just buy a new HDD. Doesn't need to be anything fancy, it's just a HDD after all. You can get a Seagate Barracuda 2TB for $60.

Keep in mind that Optane might not provide a great deal of benefit for accelerating a games drive. Depending on the game you might not even see any benefit between HDD, HDD (optane accelerated), or even SSD.

 

... Optane? Hope you're planning on using it in a different system.
 

 

Should I buy 5400 or 7200 RPM? or whichever is cheaper?

That's my old system 
my current one 
 

• CPU
  I5 8400
• Motherboard
  ASRock Z370M-ITX/ac
• RAM
  G.SKILL Ripjaws V 8GB 2400mhz
• GPU
  RX 470
• Case
  Enthoo Evolv ITX Tempered Glass
• Storage
  !TB wd Green + 256GB 840 Evo
• Display(s)
  BenQ GW2270H
• Sound
  Edifier R1700BT + TAKSTAR HI 2050
• Operating System
  Windows 10