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Apollo242

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I initially built my computer back in 2013. At the time I bought a 500gb wd blue hdd 7200rpm. I have upgraded all of my hardware but the hdd and it is quite full. I would like more storage for my games so I am looking into upgrading my hdd. I am torn between the seagate firecuda 1tb sshd and the wd black 1tb hdd. Which would be a better option for gaming and booting into windows 10 faster? My old hdd seems to take forever to boot.

My specs

Cpu:Ryzen 5 1500x
Ram: 16gb DR4 3200mhz
Gpu:GTX 1060 3gb ftw
Psu: 750 watt
Hdd: WD blue 500gb 7200rpm
 
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geofelt
To answer your question, I would go with the WD black.
Here is a report on the WD rainbow. They like WD for reliability.
I see issues with the Seagate drive.
Also, 64mb is not large enough to really do much good.
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Understanding-the-WD-Rainbow-674/

Next, to solve boot time problems, use sleep to ram instead of shutting down and rebooting.
sleep/wake should be only a few seconds.

Next, I really think you should be looking at a SSD.
Look to see how much space on your 500gb hard drive is actually used.
Buy a Samsung evo large enough to hold the used data.
a 500gb is $178. 240gb about $110.
You can if needed exclude large folders such as video and photo files.
The free Samsung ssd migration...
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To answer your question, I would go with the WD black.
Here is a report on the WD rainbow. They like WD for reliability.
I see issues with the Seagate drive.
Also, 64mb is not large enough to really do much good.
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Understanding-the-WD-Rainbow-674/

Next, to solve boot time problems, use sleep to ram instead of shutting down and rebooting.
sleep/wake should be only a few seconds.

Next, I really think you should be looking at a SSD.
Look to see how much space on your 500gb hard drive is actually used.
Buy a Samsung evo large enough to hold the used data.
a 500gb is $178. 240gb about $110.
You can if needed exclude large folders such as video and photo files.
The free Samsung ssd migration aid will move your C drive to the new ssd.
When done, you can delete files from the hard drive for whatever new purpose.
 
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