hard drive speed

t103Ninja · 23 Jul 2013 at 00:59

hey guys just looking for a little bit of help, im going to be upgrading my hard drive setup 120gb SSD for a boot drive and 2 mechanical drives
i want a 2tb drive to install steam and its game and non steam games
and a 4tb drive for my video stuff

obviously i want the fastest drives i can get i was looking at 10k drives but it seems like the limit for them is 1tb, so im thinking about getting WD black drives cuz a lot of what i can find says they are the fastest but i cant really find anything about reliability it would suck if one of my drives failed

so what do you goes think is the best drive to go for, raw performance and reliability?

rapt0r · 23 Jul 2013 at 14:32

Well personally I would get a high performance one for installing your games on as that data isn't as valuable as the 3rd one you want for your videos so would get a reliable one for that!

wazza300 · 23 Jul 2013 at 14:40

any regular 7200 or 5600 rpm hdd will be plenty fast enough imo,ive never struggled with any green drive 5k spin speed tbh

save your money

t103Ninja · 23 Jul 2013 at 18:49

wazza300 said:
any regular 7200 or 5600 rpm hdd will be plenty fast enough imo,ive never struggled with any green drive 5k spin speed tbh

save your money

just been checking out the green drives they are a lot cheaper than the black drives but everything i can see online says they are pretty slow probaly wouldnt be an issue for games but for saving realtime 1080p video i think it might struggle

wazza300 · 23 Jul 2013 at 18:52

I know my Samsung f4 is around 130mb/read write on an empty drive and the newer drives are around 140/150mb read/write

I doubt they would slow at all,i havn't recorded 1080p realtime but ive recorded standard tv and lots of fraps gaming vids without issue

t103Ninja · 23 Jul 2013 at 19:10

wazza300 said:
I know my Samsung f4 is around 130mb/read write on an empty drive and the newer drives are around 140/150mb read/write

I doubt they would slow at all,i havn't recorded 1080p realtime but ive recorded standard tv and lots of fraps gaming vids without issue

looking at the benchmarks the green drives seem to have a write speed of around 110 dxtory reccomends 130+ for 1080p i dunno they are a lot cheaper than black drives but i just dont think its fast enough to do the job... a blue drive would be perfect but they dont go any bigger than 1tb :/

wazza300 · 23 Jul 2013 at 19:12

all hdd's will slow down as they fill up with data,mine will be around 90mb per sec with it almost full

tbh I think you'll be perfectly fine with a green drive but it's upto you

what about the Seagate barracuda 2tb?those are faster 140-150mb

t103Ninja · 23 Jul 2013 at 19:16

the barracuda drives seem like a good choice for speed but ive heard a lot of bad things about the reliability ugh i dont know i want the black drives but they are so exspensive especially for a 4tb one

wazza300 · 23 Jul 2013 at 19:18

yh that's the trouble,plus the bigger they are the more data to lose should they fail

its a pity Samsung don't make em anymore

you only have wd or Seagate to choose from,the others like hitatchi idk

what about 2x 1tb raid0?

t103Ninja · 23 Jul 2013 at 19:20

its going to have to have to be the black drives i dont trust seagate and i really dont think the green drives will get the job done... guess ill just get two 2tb drives maybe use an external or something for overflow

thanks for your help

R088ieS86 · 23 Jul 2013 at 20:17

saving realtime 1080p video

as in raw 1080p? or compressed 1080p around bluray size? bluray size, green drives are fine. I have the Seagate ST4000DM000 drives for that and they are perfect. Especially on noise. WD Blacks are noisy!

Raw 1080p requires RAID or SSD write speeds!