Games microstutter on HDD

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I experience microstutter on every one of my games. After several trials and errors, I realized that none of the games on my SDD are suffering from this problem.

I scanned my HDD for errors and I did a defrag, but nothing odd came up.

Is there any reason why my games on my HDD are stuttering like that?
 
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The whole point of the WD Green drives was to provide "economical" & "green" storage. They did this by a) running at the older, slower 5400 RPM speed, & b) by going into their own "sleep" mode if they weren't in use. They use a lot less power than the WD Blue/Black/Red/Purple drives, but the access speeds are lower.

Which is most likely why the games on the HDD are stuttering, but the games on the SSD aren't.
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PC was bought on December 2014 and everything dated from there.

The HDD is a WDC WD40EZRX-75SPEB0. I believe this is the Western Digital Green brand and heard it might be not ideal for gaming?

I'm running on Windows 10

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5960X CPU @ 3.00GHz

Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (16 GB RAM)

The problem is clearly HDD related: there is a very noticeable performance loss when I move a game from my SDD to my HDD.

The SDD is a Samsung SDD 850 EVO

Thank you for the help!
 
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The whole point of the WD Green drives was to provide "economical" & "green" storage. They did this by a) running at the older, slower 5400 RPM speed, & b) by going into their own "sleep" mode if they weren't in use. They use a lot less power than the WD Blue/Black/Red/Purple drives, but the access speeds are lower.

Which is most likely why the games on the HDD are stuttering, but the games on the SSD aren't.
 
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EderSigil

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Should I then consider going for the blue brand? And post again if it solved the issue?
 
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I am using iolo System Mechanic and it has a anti-malware functionality. I never got any problem with it.

I did so many research on this stuttering over the past year. I even went the extra mile and got an ROG Swift monitor to avoid using the V-sync function on the video card. Obviously it didn't fix it.

 
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