Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB or Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB

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Is Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB a much faster HDD for gaming, or the performance difference is small? Both have the same specs. I know that Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB is faster than Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB, because Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB has 64MB's of cache, while Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB has 16MB's of cache.
 
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depends on what are you going to do with your hdd:
black - OS, apps, benchmarks, games and all that...
blue - games, videos, music...
green - video, music, documents...
red - if you want it in your NAS...

but all in all the difference is not that great as SSD vs HDD and blue is sufficient for almost everything :D
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In gaming, HDD's make no difference whatsoever except for laod times. HDD's will not affect your FPs in any wya shape or form. out of the two i would get the Black drive over the blue as from what ive heard they are the best HDD's you can get. also are you nvidiageforceGTX from Gamedebate? :p
 
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depends on what are you going to do with your hdd:
black - OS, apps, benchmarks, games and all that...
blue - games, videos, music...
green - video, music, documents...
red - if you want it in your NAS...

but all in all the difference is not that great as SSD vs HDD and blue is sufficient for almost everything :D
 
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:eek: :)
 
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Ha! i knew it :p im the guy who OCed his 760k to4.5ghz :p and no i didnt use stock cooler :p

 
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:) :) :)
 
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Even with a SSD, there's no real impact on gaming since the hard drive is not involved during the game. The only difference it can make is load the game or load a map faster. But once the game is started pretty much everything happens between these 3 components: CPU, RAM and GPU.

But between the two, I would go with the Black. I heard that the Blue have higher failure rate. But in term of performance, there's not much difference between Black and Blue. The Blacks can be a little noisier though.
 
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That's what's important for me, loading times. I've had experience with my old Western Digital Caviar Blue 640GB, it actually lasted 5 years :D and I've got to tell you that year after year it lost about 5% of the performance, so it lost about 25% after 5 years and it would even last longer if my PC wasn't too much abused with gaming (It died finally, it had HD 4350 512MB DDR2, Pentium E6300 2.8GHz and 4GB DDR2).
 
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Get a SSD then if you want fast load time.

Also, even with a mechanical drive you shouldn't get degradation over the years. It will happen if you keep copying new files without doing clean-ups and without defragmenting periodically. If the drive gets too full, of course performance will decrease, this is why you need to move files elsewhere (external drive for instance).

Also note that if you get a SSD you should disable defragmentation (it doesn't affect SSD).



 
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Hard disk drive was cleaned every month with System Defrag and Advanced System Care, it was always about 25% in C: and about 5% in D: drive. It probably lasted long because I took a really good care of my hard disk drive and I didn't fill it too much. I still don't know why my PC died, it was probably a PSU that burned my motherboard, I've change my motherboard the second time and it died.
 
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Also note that you get degradation from Windows and software over the years with the registry that keeps growing and all the updates getting installed, and unfortunately that's inevitable. Even products like Advanced System Care or other products that promise a magic solution that will fix your registry and speed up your system are often scam and can cause more harms than goods most of the time. Only a good old reformat and Windows reinstall will make the system run like new again. I usually reinstall Windows every 2 or 3 years. And it's really not that bad because newer Windows versions are much better so you can now go 2 or 3 years before too much performance degradation. I remember during the Windows 98 days, we had to reformat every 3 or 4 months, lol!
 
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