How to maximally optimize a 1 TB 5400 rpm WD Blue HDD for gaming?

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Hi all,

my Lenovo Y-700-15ISK laptop has a 128 Gb primary SSD drive,and a 1 TB 5400 rpm WD Blue HDD.

To be honest,I can't afford a bigger SSD drive,so I would like to know how can I maximally optimize my HDD for gaming!

I have noticed that for an example,ArmA 3 had stuttering while it was installed on the HDD,but when I installed it on the SSD drive,the game ran smoothly!

But I would mostly like to play GTA V,and it can't be installed on the SSD drive due to the lack of space for it,and I always play GTA V with big cars packs,mods etc.

While I play GTA V after installing mega realistic cars mods,I get stuttering and FPS drops,so I would like to know if the game would be installed on a SSD ,the frame rate would be better,or only the stuttering will dissappear?

And finally please tell me how to maximally optimize the HDD,to avoid the stuttering,(and maybe get better FPS?) and get the most of it!

Thanks in advance!
Best regards!
 
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Solandri

This is a long-standing problem with the 5400 RPM WD drives. WD puts an incredibly short head parking timer on these drives (something like 10-15 seconds). After that short period of inactivity, it parks the heads. When the computer requests info off the drive, it freezes while it waits for the heads to unpark, causing stuttering in games.

There are a few solutions, none of them ideal. I've been steering people away from the WD Blue, Green, and SSHD drives for a couple years now because of this issue...
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This is a long-standing problem with the 5400 RPM WD drives. WD puts an incredibly short head parking timer on these drives (something like 10-15 seconds). After that short period of inactivity, it parks the heads. When the computer requests info off the drive, it freezes while it waits for the heads to unpark, causing stuttering in games.

There are a few solutions, none of them ideal. I've been steering people away from the WD Blue, Green, and SSHD drives for a couple years now because of this issue.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3291249/hdd-giving-problems-games.html#19105974
 
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The best you can do is defrag the hard drive if it is above 15% fragmentation. Other than that, there is nothing you can really do. Will defragging make much of a difference? No, I don't think so.

Switching from a HDD to a SSD will not increase FPS unless the game is always loading data for the game.
 
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