Best HDD for Gaming?

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
T

T0xicGravity

Reputable
Dec 6, 2015
19
0
4,510
Im looking for a new Hdd around 2 - 3 terabytes and i really dont want an ssd since ive already got one for windows and they are way too expensive. Im just looking for a Hdd that is very good for gaming.
 
Solution
Onus
The HDD will have an insignificant effect on gaming, except possibly for level-load and respawn times. Get a 7200 RPM drive. I prefer WD Black drives for their five year warranties, implying the manufacturer has a lot more confidence in them than their competitors who may only offer two year warranties. Ideally, your games will also fit on the SSD with Windows, which will cut down those level-load / respawn times.
Sort by date Sort by votes
Onus

Onus

Titan
Jan 27, 2006
37,037
12
89,965
The HDD will have an insignificant effect on gaming, except possibly for level-load and respawn times. Get a 7200 RPM drive. I prefer WD Black drives for their five year warranties, implying the manufacturer has a lot more confidence in them than their competitors who may only offer two year warranties. Ideally, your games will also fit on the SSD with Windows, which will cut down those level-load / respawn times.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
H

hst101rox

Reputable
Aug 28, 2014
436
0
4,810
The higher capacity Caviar Green drives like a 6TB are nice and speedy with sequential transfers, while being very, very cool (low power) and rather quiet. Not quite as fast with random performance but the power consumption is almost half so might as well go with the green instead of the energy guzzler.
2TB SSD will be less than $200 in a few years hopefully
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Onus

Onus

Titan
Jan 27, 2006
37,037
12
89,965
"Green" drives are fine for data like pics and documents, but I would not use one for programs, including games; they are notably slower.
I am personally unconvinced yet of the long term reliability of drives over 2TB in size, another reason I prefer the longest possible warranty.
Even a slow SSD is much faster than a fast mechanical HDD; if your system SSD is smaller than 250GB, I'd prefer having a larger SSD so I could put more programs on it.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
H

hst101rox

Reputable
Aug 28, 2014
436
0
4,810


Keep in mind, a 6TB green drive may be faster than say a 2TB 7200RPM drive and especially a green one of that capacity, so it's relative.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Onus

Onus

Titan
Jan 27, 2006
37,037
12
89,965
The 7200RPM drive will be faster on sequential throughput than a 5900RPM "Green" (or LP) drive. My biggest concern would be reliability. The frequent head parking of Green drives has been problematic for some, prompting firmware fixes to reduce it. I'd probably keep any drive to 2TB.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
H

hst101rox

Reputable
Aug 28, 2014
436
0
4,810


Actually, sequential transfers can easily be greater on a greater capacity green drive, such as a 2TB 7200RPM drive versus 6TB green. 2TB 7200RPM is at about 140MB/s on the outer edge, maybe a bit more. 6TB green is about 200MB/s.

Random transfers are different where higher RPM, seek time; (access time) helps more.

I got a Seagate ST6000DX000 6TB 7200RPM drive a while ago. It does automatic head parking, very aggressively! There is no firmware update either to fix it and it causes a delay because it takes about a second for it to come online again after parking the heads. Have to use Crystal Disk Info to have it automatically disable power saving and acoustics every time I turn on the drive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wau6aMYR08

But most 7200RPM drives don't park there heads. That should be an option to disable on the green drives, especially since they make a clunk whenever it happens, including some laptop drive, don't want to engineer it to be quiet.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom