5400 RPM How bad is it?

[Tom is a Door]

I have a really old SSD, don't think it has much life left. So I don't want to create an image of my 5.4k RPM to my OCZ Agility 3 SSD. I also don't want to do it because I am lazy and it will take a while. So, I was wondering, is 5400 RPM really that bad? Most of my life is used cheap thrown away tech anyway will there be any huge difference? My latest PC had a 7200 RPM and I thought it was reasonably fast. What do you guys think? Should I just bite the bullet and transfer to the SSD? I will probably have to get an adapter for my dvd bay as the only way I could clone the hard drive is through that I don't have empty HDD bay.  

[Sir Asvald]

5400 are painfully slow...

[Tom is a Door]

1 minute ago, Abdul201588 said:

5400 are painfully slow...

Most of the benchmark out there has too many uncontrolled variable but how much of a difference would you say there is between 7200 and 5400

I don't need exact statistics but how did you feel between the two loading things up.

[KenjiUmino]

2 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

5400 are painfully slow...

this. really bad as a system drive. if you have other options: use them

[Sir Asvald]

4 minutes ago, Tom is a Door said:

Most of the benchmark out there has too many uncontrolled variable but how much of a difference would you say there is between 7200 and 5400

I don't need exact statistics but how did you feel between the two loading things up.

I have a 5400rpm 250GB HDD in my laptop and it REALLLY slow. It take a good 10 minutes to load everything. 

[Marinatall_Ironside]

I use a 5400 RPM WD Red drive for my game libraries, project folders, and for miscellaneous files. Plus it serves as my documents, pictures, videos, and downloads directories.

 

As for accessing them (and loading game saves), it could be better, but when I initially bought it, I was wanting the most storage for the best possible price I could get at the time.

[Tom is a Door]

1 minute ago, JurunceNK said:

I use a 5400 RPM WD Red drive for my game libraries, project folders, and for miscellaneous files. Plus it serves as my documents, pictures, videos, and downloads directories.

 

As for accessing them (and loading game saves), it could be better, but when I initially bought it, I was wanting the most storage for the best possible price I could get at the time.

I just bought mine, did yours get significantly slower to the point it was pain as you filled it up? (Assuming you didn't wait 14 hours every other month defragging it) 

[Marinatall_Ironside]

Just now, Tom is a Door said:

I just bought mine, did yours get significantly slower to the point it was pain as you filled it up? (Assuming you didn't wait 14 hours every other month defragging it) 

No. As for the defragging part, that's automated (weekly if I remember correctly). My game libraries is almost maxed out (I allocated 1.5TB out of 3TB (unformatted) and the rest went to the other directories)

[Zodiark1593]

There is a bit of a difference between 5400 rpm 3.5" drives, and the miserably slow 5400 rpm 2.5" laptop drives. Most of the desktops at work here run the latter and are slower than molasses when doing silent random virus scans, or silent updates. My Intel Atom netbook (with eMMc) feels worlds more responsive by comparison.

 

My WD Green is plenty quick for games and media storage. Don't think I would use it as a boot drive though.

[Tom is a Door]

1 minute ago, Zodiark1593 said:

There is a bit of a difference between 5400 rpm 3.5" drives, and the miserably slow 5400 rpm 2.5" laptop drives. Most of the desktops at work here run the latter and are slower than molasses when doing silent random virus scans, or silent updates. My Intel Atom netbook (with eMMc) feels worlds more responsive by comparison.

 

My WD Green is plenty quick for games and media storage. Don't think I would use it as a boot drive though.

I am on a 2.5" 5400 lol. Reason I ask is because I just bought this second hand and seems slow but not to the point I want to pull my hair out. Getting the SSD working will require a few bucks and taking my laptop apart is a nightmare (took me a while last time I did it). So I was looking for a justitication to put off the work. I guess I can't anymore. I will get on buying an DVD drive hdd caddy adapter for my HDD and use my SSD for boot- cs go and some programs 

[Zodiark1593]

2 minutes ago, Tom is a Door said:

I am on a 2.5" 5400 lol. Reason I ask is because I just bought this second hand and seems slow but not to the point I want to pull my hair out. Getting the SSD working will require a few bucks and taking my laptop apart is a nightmare (took me a while last time I did it). So I was looking for a justitication to put off the work. I guess I can't anymore. I will get on buying an DVD drive hdd caddy adapter for my HDD and use my SSD for boot- cs go and some programs 

The biggest pain in the rear was the reinstall of Windows, and installing the drivers and other stuff I use. Can't say I'd willingly go back to running the OS off a HDD though.

[Tom is a Door]

2 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

The biggest pain in the rear was the reinstall of Windows, and installing the drivers and other stuff I use. Can't say I'd willingly go back to running the OS off a HDD though.

so the work will pay off it seems  Thanks 

[Zodiark1593]

4 minutes ago, Tom is a Door said:

so the work will pay off it seems  Thanks 

I would just do a full format and clean install to the SSD with the old HDD outside. This will let you know whether the drive works before committing, and is certainly quicker than trying to transfer an old image between drives.