Best performance Mechanical 2TB gaming drive?

Katanga · 18 Jul 2017 at 14:23

Or Hybrid one, my current 1TB WD Velociraptor games drive is close to filling up now and I need something larger, 2TB SSD's are still a bit expensive and I dont see any 1.5 ish TB SSD's? an SSD would be perfect other wise though.

So what is best performing 2 TB Mechanical HD or possibly Hybrid one, would hybrid be noticeably faster in games I wonder? When I say faster I mean load time too of course.

Katanga · 18 Jul 2017 at 14:47

Thanks, so stick with a pure mechanical one then? pity there was never a 2TB WD Velociraptor, just reading the SSD price surge thread, *sigh* do need a bigger 1.5TB at least performance game drive, so what would be best I wonder?

WD Black? not sure what is fastest for game performance in their range, Black Blue Green or Purple, LOL

Katanga · 18 Jul 2017 at 15:12

hornetstinger said:
Just have a system with lots of RAM.

I have 32GB DDR4 3000

I guess I'm pretty lazy for searching for benchmarks for something like this, had hoped to see a few definitive answers along the lines of the XYZ 2TB drive for sure

If someone could recommend a high performance (with decent reliability) 2TB Mechanical gaming drive from OcUK stock could go order it just now ... I really am quite lazy, sorry

Katanga · 18 Jul 2017 at 21:53

Danny75 said:
When SSDs of the right size aren't available/too expensive, and more speed than a single HDD can provide is desired, and it's for games not work/valuable data, seems like one of the few good reasons left to have 2 x HDD in RAID 0. The Toshiba P300s are about 200Mbps read/write (sequential), so double that is nice. Of course the seek/access time won't be as good as SSD. But once it's rolling it's rolling about as fast as a normal SATA SSD. Like Rroff mentioned, if you short stroked them to create a first partition where you want your fave games (or the games you want faster loading times for), then bonus.

Hell, even 3 x 2TB HDD (one for backup) don't cost as much as a 1TB SSD.

Cant do RAID of any sort on this system and rather not from bad experience reasons doing that in the past, can explain if anyone really wants to know, but no Thanks.

Still waiting to hear what the best performance 2 TB Mechanical HDD is for games is, nobody seems to know?