5400 or 7200RPM for Desktop 3.5" HDD

[FunctionCore]

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TOPIC IS NOW SOLVED. THANK YOU.

 

I am currently thinking of upgrading my current rig. I noticed that there was a 3.5" 3TB WD Blue "@" 5400RPM

The HDD I currently have is a 3.5" 1TB WD Blue"@" 7200RPM.

 

Any advice would be appriciated.

[Arty]

7200rpm 

unless you need 3TB

[flibberdipper]

7200RPM all the way. The little boost in speed is worth it.

[imreloadin]

Here is a nice little comparison video.

 

[FunctionCore]

1 minute ago, Arty said:

7200rpm 

unless you need 3TB

Thanks for the advice.

On a side note, what is the average amount space that games take up?

The games I will be playing:

• The Sims 4 (Expansion Packs Only)
• Cities: Skylines (Gold Editon After Dark)
• Papers, Please
• BeamNG.drive
• Fallout 4
• Just Cause 3

The games I generally play are Simulation, FPS (First Person Shooter) & Soft body physics.

[Arty]

Just now, FunctionCore said:

Thanks for the advice.

On a side note, what is the average amount space that games take up?

The games I will be playing:

• The Sims 4 (Expansion Packs Only)
• Cities: Skylines (Gold Editon After Dark)
• Papers, Please
• BeamNG.drive
• Fallout 4
• Just Cause 3

The games I generally play are Simulation, FPS (First Person Shooter) & Soft body physics.

1TB should be plenty

 

you can always google game sizes xD, ~100GB+  probbly 

[mikeb1479]

im using a 750gb 5400rpm laptop hdd in my desktop as a game drive atm, and... the length of time it takes to load fallout 4 can vary from quick to, make yaself a cup of tea, lol.... i will be upping to a 7200 soon myself

[FunctionCore]

1 minute ago, Arty said:

1TB should be plenty

 

you can always google game sizes xD, ~100GB+  probbly 

 

1 minute ago, mikeb1479 said:

im using a 750gb 5400rpm laptop hdd in my desktop as a game drive atm, and... the length of time it takes to load fallout 4 can vary from quick to, make yaself a cup of tea, lol.... i will be upping to a 7200 soon myself

 

Ok. So if I need more capacity I should buy another 3.5" 1TB WD Blue "@" 7200RPM. I would buy a Black if I could afford it. Anyway, i'm using a Kingston SSD for the boot drive so only games & documents on the HDD.

[mikeb1479]

1 minute ago, FunctionCore said:

 

 

Ok. So if I need more capacity I should buy another 3.5" 1TB WD Blue "@" 7200RPM. I would buy a Black if I could afford it. Anyway, i'm using a Kingston SSD for the boot drive so only games & documents on the HDD.

yeah 7200 minimum, though, i think i will be going toshiba/hitachi as i have NEVER had an issue with them

[Toxicknight79]

Im with everyone else with saying 7200 RPM , if you want head room 2 TB  is good but 1TB will do fine for what you want.

[mikeb1479]

1 minute ago, Toxicknight79 said:

Im with everyone else with saying 7200 RPM , if you want head room 2 TB  is good but 1TB will do fine for what you want.

agreed, 2TB if you're one to mod the balls off ya game, like, fallout 4 and skyrim, lol

 

[FunctionCore]

1 minute ago, Toxicknight79 said:

Im with everyone else with saying 7200 RPM , if you want head room 2 TB  is good but 1TB will do fine for what you want.

 

5 minutes ago, mikeb1479 said:

yeah 7200 minimum, though, i think i will be going toshiba/hitachi as i have NEVER had an issue with them

Thanks for the advice. When I have some money walking around, I will probaly upgrade to a WD Black so I can have 7200RPM+ On drives more than 2TB.

[mikeb1479]

Just now, FunctionCore said:

 

Thanks for the advice. When I have some money walking around, I will probaly upgrade to a WD Black so I can have 7200RPM+ On drives more than 2TB.

:D!

 

might i suggest, the seagate hybrid SSD/HDD ? could help alot with the laoding of fallout 4 and such

[FunctionCore]

2 minutes ago, mikeb1479 said:

:D!

 

might i suggest, the seagate hybrid SSD/HDD ? could help alot with the laoding of fallout 4 and such

Thanks for the suggestion, but pass. The last SSHD that I looked at had a form factor of only 2.5" "@" 5400RPM. Rubbish for a desktop PC. Gaming or not.

[mikeb1479]

1 minute ago, FunctionCore said:

Thanks for the suggestion, but pass. The last SSHD that I looked at had a form factor of only 2.5" "@" 5400RPM. Rubbish for a desktop PC. Gaming or not.

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-seagate-st1000dx001-sshd-hybrid-hdd-35-sata-6gb-s-64mb-cache-8ms-oem-ncq

 

UK based, but, there is a 3.5" version at 7200

[FunctionCore]

Still, no. I perfer HDDs for mass storage & SSDs for OS Data/Program Data. .

 

BTW, Please don't continue threads that have been marked answered. Not a mod, just trying to help out.

[Crowes]

28 minutes ago, FunctionCore said:

Thanks for the advice.

On a side note, what is the average amount space that games take up?

The games I will be playing:

• The Sims 4 (Expansion Packs Only)
• Cities: Skylines (Gold Editon After Dark)
• Papers, Please
• BeamNG.drive
• Fallout 4
• Just Cause 3

The games I generally play are Simulation, FPS (First Person Shooter) & Soft body physics.

 

Just Cause 3 and Fallout 4 are about 30-40GB per.

Sims games are usually about 20-30GB per.

Cities and BeamNG will probably be somewhere around the 6GB mark.

Papers, Please is about 1-2GB IIRC.

[FunctionCore]

21 minutes ago, Crowes said:

 

Just Cause 3 and Fallout 4 are about 30-40GB per.

Sims games are usually about 20-30GB per.

Cities and BeamNG will probably be somewhere around the 6GB mark.

Papers, Please is about 1-2GB IIRC.

Thanks for the help. Looks like even after installing all of those games I will have 900+ (I think 914) GBs.