1TB 5400rpm or 320GB 7200prm?

McLovin01 · Jan 6, 2017

2.5" black WDs are quite rare in the market right now in my country. now I have to sacrifice that significant capacity difference for performance because this is the last black WD I found after alot of searching in the malls.
keep in mind that I have only one slot in my laptop so it's the drive that has the OS.
Aside from the performance I'm leaning towards the black one because laptops are most likely to receive hits, especially that I want to change the 750GB 5400rpm blue WD that came in it because it failed because it fall.
Thanks.

Martell1977 · Jan 6, 2017

If you can afford it, get both and a HDD enclosure. You can have the speed in the computer and the storage as a external USB drive. Otherwise, if the 320gb isn't enough space, then you will need the space more than the speed.

Seagate makes some decent drives, just ignore the SHDD's, they were great but now that the HDD portion is 5400rpm, they are unimpressive.

McLovin01 · Jan 6, 2017

Martell1977 :

I found a red WD my passport ultra 2TB surprisingly cheap, that'll do right?

aside from less loading time does the hdd speed make anything else better

segate isn't easy to find as well, besides the fact that it fails more frequently than wd and the former hitachi

Martell1977 · Jan 6, 2017

McLovin01 :

The Passport is an external drive and will work fine.

The speed mainly affects loading times, but it can also limit how well a program will run(programs that access the HDD often while running). There is a noticeable difference in overall performance between 5400rpm, 7200rpm and SSD.

I recode video files often and a file that takes 30 minutes to code on a 7200rpm drive took almost an hour on a 5400rpm. The recode speed is insane on an SSD, but I rarely do that.

As for Seagate, I used to buy WD exclusively as I had multiple SG drives fail after they bought out Maxtor. A few years back I decided to try them again as the Maxtor buyout was a long time past and have found that the current SG drives are of good quality.

I bought a couple SSHD's when they had a 7200rpm HDD portion and they run great (over 5 years now). However, for laptop drives, they changed it so all the 2.5" drives are 5400rpm HDD's. I bought one to try it and anything not cached into the SSD part is pathetically slow (IMO). I bought a cheap enclosure and use it as a external storage drive. The desktop SSHD's @ 7200rpm are a great solution for those limited to a small case or can'f afford the SSD+HDD combo.

McLovin01 · Jan 7, 2017

Martell1977 :

McLovin01 :

The Passport is an external drive and will work fine.

The speed mainly affects loading times, but it can also limit how well a program will run(programs that access the HDD often while running). There is a noticeable difference in overall performance between 5400rpm, 7200rpm and SSD.

I recode video files often and a file that takes 30 minutes to code on a 7200rpm drive took almost an hour on a 5400rpm. The recode speed is insane on an SSD, but I rarely do that.

As for Seagate, I used to buy WD exclusively as I had multiple SG drives fail after they bought out Maxtor. A few years back I decided to try them again as the Maxtor buyout was a long time past and have found that the current SG drives are of good quality.

I bought a couple SSHD's when they had a 7200rpm HDD portion and they run great (over 5 years now). However, for laptop drives, they changed it so all the 2.5" drives are 5400rpm HDD's. I bought one to try it and anything not cached into the SSD part is pathetically slow (IMO). I bought a cheap enclosure and use it as a external storage drive. The desktop SSHD's @ 7200rpm are a great solution for those limited to a small case or can'f afford the SSD+HDD combo.

thanks. definetly will consider the sshd solution

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