more TB=slower?

[JewishBacon]

my 4 year old WD blue drive just passed on to the nas in the sky. and im going to buy a new drive. I plan on replacing my steam drive (90% of 1 TB full) with a 2 TB drive and recycling the older one to be my main mass storage. but ive never owned anything bigger than a 1 TB. Do HDDs geet slower with more TB and thus more platters in them? 

[Vacsol]

no

[SeanBond]

I am fairly sure the more TB past a certain point won't really matter, however multiple smaller drive can be much faster in certain situations.

[dadasmithywinkle]

my 4 year old WD blue drive just passed on to the nas in the sky. and im going to buy a new drive. I plan on replacing my steam drive (90% of 1 TB full) with a 2 TB drive and recycling the older one to be my main mass storage. but ive never owned anything bigger than a 1 TB. Do HDDs geet slower with more TB and thus more platters in them? 

No. My 3TB is the same speed as my 2TB.

[gilm0re3]

Nope. If anything a higher capacity hdd will be faster than its smaller counterpart because the data is being stored on the platters more densely, so the read head can retrieve the data faster because it is all closer together.

[TheKDub]

Nope.

 

Though with mechanical storage devices such as hard drives, as the data gets closer and closer to the center of the disk its read and write speeds will be much slower than that of the outer layers due to the difference in speeds at which the sections of it spin.

[pinksnowmanshandle]

no

Expanding on what you said, basically what determines the speed of a HDD is a.) RPM and b.) Cache and c.) Interface IDE v. SATA 3 v. SATA 6, etc.

[gilm0re3]

What you should be more concerned (if concerned at all) about is the actual speed that the platters are spinning at. 7200 rpm drives should almost always be faster than 5400 rpm drives, so the speed that your drive is spinning at will be the real limiting factor as far as speed.

[1Scotty1]

As an owner of a 4TB WD Red I can safely say - No

[tmlhalo]

GilmOre3 has it right. Often bigger drives are faster due to data density as long as all other variables are constant. 

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/desktop-hdd.15-st4000dm000-4tb,3494-3.html

[Captain_WD]

my 4 year old WD blue drive just passed on to the nas in the sky. and im going to buy a new drive. I plan on replacing my steam drive (90% of 1 TB full) with a 2 TB drive and recycling the older one to be my main mass storage. but ive never owned anything bigger than a 1 TB. Do HDDs geet slower with more TB and thus more platters in them? 

 

 

Hey JewishBacon,

 

I'm sorry to hear about your old drive. What drive do you have in mind for your new 2TB one?

 

As the guys pointed out, it is generally true that larger capacity drives have a bit higher read/write speeds compared to the same drives with lower capacity. You can check the spreadsheets of the WD drives to see how much faster are some driver performing with larger capacity:

WD Black: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=T23vRd

WD Green: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=q8Ql5E

WD Red: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=YDtOxj

WD Purple: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=nqggxQ

WD Blue: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=HWTPIh

 

Captain_WD.

[ictdude1]

more tb isnt slower but it means its less reliable because there are more platters and heads inside the drive

[JewishBacon]

 

Hey JewishBacon,

 

I'm sorry to hear about your old drive. What drive do you have in mind for your new 2TB one?

 

As the guys pointed out, it is generally true that larger capacity drives have a bit higher read/write speeds compared to the same drives with lower capacity. You can check the spreadsheets of the WD drives to see how much faster are some driver performing with larger capacity:

WD Black: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=T23vRd

WD Green: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=q8Ql5E

WD Red: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=YDtOxj

WD Purple: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=nqggxQ

WD Blue: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=HWTPIh

 

Captain_WD.

 

hey cap, I think I'm about to upset you, but I ended up going with a 2TB Seagate drive, as my last 3 WD products have left me unhappy with them not working/being excessively LOUD.

[Captain_WD]

hey cap, I think I'm about to upset you, but I ended up going with a 2TB Seagate drive, as my last 3 WD products have left me unhappy with them not working/being excessively LOUD.

 

The good thing about today's market is that it offers a variety of brands to choose from and everyone is free to pick whichever brand and product they prefer. I am here only to advise and suggest options and alternatives. I hope you are satisfied with your new drive and keep your data safe.

 

Captain_WD.