Western Digital 4TB HDD vs WB Blue 1TB 7200 RPM?

[Amir93]

Hi guys, I already have 2 HDDs in my PC, both of them Western Digital Blue 1TB 7200 RPM.

 

Due to needs of more storage space, i decided to get myself Western Digital Blue 4TB HDD, will be used for gaming only.

 

But there's speed differences between both types of HDDs (7200 RPM vs 5400 RPM).

 

I check that benchmark, and found the real difference is just 5-9% only:

https://hdd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/WD-Blue-1TB-2012-vs-WD-Blue-4TB-2015/1779vs3523

 

But i wanted to ask here again if there will be performance difference or just a little bit which will not affect anything.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Meganter]

Hello,

 

Having a Seagate 5400RPM 4TB with 256MB of cache it's still very fast, not as much as a SSD for sure but I didn't notice a lot of difference with my WD 7200TPM 1TB with 64MB of cache.

 

But don't use userbenchmark, that's a bad website in general.

[Amir93]

4 minutes ago, Meganter said:

Having a Seagate 5400RPM 4TB with 256MB of cache it's still very fast, not as much as a SSD for sure but I didn't notice a lot of difference with my WD 7200TPM 1TB with 64MB of cache.

 

Thanks, but just notice you have a higher cache here.

But my WD Blue 4TB has 64MB cache, same like the 1TB one.

 

4 minutes ago, Meganter said:

But don't use userbenchmark, that's a bad website in general.

I'm just comparing specs there, like read and write speed.

[Meganter]

3 minutes ago, Amir93 said:

Thanks, but just notice you have a higher cache here.

But my WD Blue 4TB has 64MB cache, same like the 1TB one.

For HDD, the mechanical part is the most important so RPM overshadows the cache. 

 

 

Not a big difference it's like SSD vs NVMe for loading time.

 

[Amir93]

9 minutes ago, Meganter said:

Not a big difference it's like SSD vs NVMe for loading time.

 

Yeah, actually almost no difference, just 2 seconds which means nothing to me XD 

Thank you so so much for your help.