Is a 5400 RPM HDD ever going to be better than a 7200 RPM HDD?

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EvanMS

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Do 5400 rpm hdd's have any advantage over 7200?
I mean, they're supposed to be cheaper, right? But I keep finding identical HDDs besides the fact that one is 7200 rpm and the other is 5400, but they're the same price, so that's why I'm wondering this.
 
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Depends if your thinking of normal HDDs cause you have 5400rpm SSHDs which has a 64mb cache so acts like an SDD when booting up then uses disc for storage, you have 7200 rpm drives which would load slower than those drives. Depends on what drive your comparing it to, a 7200 compared with an SSHD 5400 they are cheaper and boot faster because the cache is larger. Then you go into power and age of the drive which some of the other guys have said on the forum, which depends if you are trying to conserve power or use it efficiently and whether its an old drive or a new one as 5400s are still being made using more technology, as I mentioned earlier SSHDs. Then again you got WDs dual drive with a 7200rpm HDD + 550MB/sR SDD in an 2.5" drive...
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Depends on the drive, a 10 yr old 7200 would easily get beat by a brand new 5400. Comparing identical technologies - nope. That be like asking if a jet with a top speed of 7200mph would get beat by the one with 5400mph - not gonna happen.
 
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Depends if your thinking of normal HDDs cause you have 5400rpm SSHDs which has a 64mb cache so acts like an SDD when booting up then uses disc for storage, you have 7200 rpm drives which would load slower than those drives. Depends on what drive your comparing it to, a 7200 compared with an SSHD 5400 they are cheaper and boot faster because the cache is larger. Then you go into power and age of the drive which some of the other guys have said on the forum, which depends if you are trying to conserve power or use it efficiently and whether its an old drive or a new one as 5400s are still being made using more technology, as I mentioned earlier SSHDs. Then again you got WDs dual drive with a 7200rpm HDD + 550MB/sR SDD in an 2.5" drive which is faster than any 7200rpm HDD or SSHD, there are a lot more factors to consider if your talking about 7200 & 5400 drives generally but is your talking just standard drives then I'd go with a 7200rpm HDD.
 
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