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Hard Drive Speed (5400 vs 7200)

knight_40k
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For reference I am looking to buy Seagate ST4000DM004. I want a 4TB HDD but most of the drives appear to be 5400 except for NAS or Enterprise models. I see the WD Black is 7200 but is expensive considering the capacity. I am hesitant to use 5400 because I used to have a 2TB WD Green and it was extremely slow for transferring files between drives and extracting zips and such. Has 5400 gotten better in the past years or were there other factors behind the horrible performance of my old WD Green? Or should I just buy a 7200 Ironwolf NAS for my game/storage drive?

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5400rpm drives hve gotten faster over the years, so that drive should be fine for those uses. I have used many a 5400rpm drive for games without issues. Get a ssd cache if you want it a bit faster.

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17 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

5400rpm drives hve gotten faster

Exactly how does that work?

5400 RPM is 5400 RPM.

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3 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Exactly how does that work?

5400 RPM is 5400 RPM.

Head speeds, file storage optimization, OS optimization. Little things but they make a difference.

 

@knight_40k do you have a ryzen system? Any SSD can be used as cache with StoreMI so you might see some speed improvements that way.

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1 hour ago, Fasauceome said:

Head speeds, file storage optimization, OS optimization. Little things but they make a difference.

 

@knight_40k do you have a ryzen system? Any SSD can be used as cache with StoreMI so you might see some speed improvements that way.

Yes, I have a 5800X and 1TB NVME SSD. How would I go about setting that up?

1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

5400rpm drives hve gotten faster over the years, so that drive should be fine for those uses. I have used many a 5400rpm drive for games without issues. Get a ssd cache if you want it a bit faster.

Good to know, thank you. I'm trying to save a bit of cash being that its on sale and all.

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8 minutes ago, knight_40k said:

Yes, I have a 5800X and 1TB NVME SSD. How would I go about setting that up?

you can find the software on the AMD site, and guides on youtube are easy to come by

I WILL find your ITX build thread, and I WILL recommend the SIlverstone Sugo SG13B

 

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Draws 400 watts under max load, for reference.

 

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