Hey I am a PC Gamer and I Usually use a "[u]SAMSUNG EcoGreen F2 HD103SI 1TB 5400 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s[/u]" as my main hard drive because I have not had money for a better one and I just picked up a "[u]Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s[/u]" on Newegg for $25 and I am just curious If it is worth it to go through all the trouble to switch OS to this drive and about what differences in loading times and whatnot would I experience with everything like games? Is this new drive much faster and btw my motherboard only does SATA 3.0Gb/s so can't use full 6Gb/s.
tbh, you wont notice that great of a difference, also over time when you start installing things onto the mechanical drive, you're going to experience a slowdown anyway
You will notice a difference, but you wuld notice a bigger difference if you went with a Western Digital BLACK branded drive instead, which have 32mb cache aswell.
No need to go through all the hassle and format windows before you actally have to.. And when that time comes, install it on the WD drive ^^
For gandu:
I once installed a WD green 1tb drive for my sisters build and used it as OS drive, and hell it's so slow and choppy when just normally navigating in windows. (and that's a drive that hovers between 5400rpm -7200rpm)
ALSO to opening poster: Even the second drive being 6gb/s doesn't mean it will be faster than the same drive with 3gb/s., a normal mechanical drive can't even do 3gb/s to the max.
Could you guys recommend me a HDD? I'm currently running on a seagate 160gb.:/ so it sucks alot. I dont wanna spend more than $75 but i want amazing performance for the price. I dont need a huge amount of space and 500GB would be great! i have been looking at this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136795&cm_re=caviar_black-_-22-136-795-_-Product is this ok? or are they any faster?
That's my HDD of choice. But really, it's a waste getting only 500gb when 1tb is only a few bucks more.
Paxton said:
Could you guys recommend me a HDD? I'm currently running on a seagate 160gb.:/ so it sucks alot. I dont wanna spend more than $75 but i want amazing performance for the price. I dont need a huge amount of space and 500GB would be great! i have been looking at this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136795&cm_re=caviar_black-_-22-136-795-_-Product is this ok? or are they any faster?
I've got two of the SATA II versions in RAID 0, and they're pretty damn fast together. The caviar black drives are as fast as you're going to get unless you drop the money on a velociraptor or an industrial drive.
bang for buck, samsung f3 1tb
i have some wd re4 drives have them in raid have had speeds up to 280mbs form raid 5 to raid 0