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WD Green vs Seagate Barracuda for gaming?

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So I know this is a noon question, but I need some advice on this. Basically: I have three drives in my PC, one for Windows, a second for my games, and a third for all my other junk.

I was lucky enough to find a 1TB 7200rpm WD Caviar Green drive on Craigslist for 10 bucks. Now I'm thinking of replacing my games drive with this. The one used for the games is a old 2.5 500GB 5400rpm Seagate drive.

My question is: Is the WD drive going to take harm in any way from using it for gaming? I don't really care about game load time, since is probably not going to be any worse. If anyone can help me with this it would be much appreciated! (Again, this is a noob question, but you can't be good at everything, right? :P)

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Go with the Green.

 

No, it won't be harmed. 

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Its going to be faster for your games so you'll actually see an improvement. Simply using a hard drive brings it ever so closer to failure, but hey, for $10 you cannot complain. Just dont shake it around while its powered on and spinning.

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