Is my HDD fast enough

ryzenlover2017 · Feb 20, 2018

I just finished my build, and inside I have a 120gb ssd, and a 1 tb HDD. What I'm worried about is that the HDD is too slow for enjoying programs. Its a 2007 dell OEM Hitachi deskstar.... and from what I read was one of the first, of not the first to hit the market. I got it for free... And it's 7200 rpm, so it seems fine, but it's pretty darn old so you never know.

WildCard999 · Feb 20, 2018

I'm sure it'll be fine for most games/programs, there's only a few games that can utilize the speeds of a SSD and it's usually just loading times.

Rdslw · Feb 20, 2018

In gaming it mostly does not matter. Take ATTO Disk Benchmark and get HDD health-checks and benches. Anything over 70MB/s is good for gaming
with less than 40 I would make this drive a backup.
"7K1000 hit 86.9 MB/sec"
internet says it should hold ~80 so its not bad.

ryzenlover2017 · Feb 20, 2018

Awesome thanks guys.... Gosh I love the toms community. I plan on putting my most important programs on the ssd.... But obviously it's not large enough for 99 percent of gamers.

geofelt · Feb 20, 2018

There is very little difference in performance among all 7200rpm drives.

You might want to run the Hitachi drive diagnostics:
https://www.hgst.com/support/hard-drive-support/downloads

Doctor Rob · Feb 20, 2018

Just an FYI if you for example pay some of the battle field games an SSD does make a big difference in multiplayer. I know of a few people that have SSDs and a few that don't and everyone that has an SSD loading the game is always in playing before the ones without SSDs and thats even on similar hardware.. IT only seems to matter on the first loading of the map though as its much faster.

geofelt · Feb 20, 2018

FWIW, a SSD is some 50x faster in random I/o performance than any hard drive.
It will be some 2-10x faster in sequential, depending on the interface.
Of course that does not apply to anything not on the ssd.
A 500gb Samsung 850 evo ssd is perhaps$150; consider one.

ryzenlover2017 · Feb 20, 2018

I've only been using the 120gb ssd for the last few weeks and ive been able to fit a lot more than you would think. It's a dramless SanDisk.... And I love it. Windows 10 is on there and it runs great.

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