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expired Posted by couponhunter • Nov 26, 2020
Nov 26, 2020 2:55 PM
4TB WD Red Plus 3.5" 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s NAS Internal Hard Drive
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Why so many thumbs up here?
I want more space to save more games and also some gameplay that I want to record to use as video, so I wanted to get another HDD for that.
Would this [newegg.com]be a good choice in your opinion give what you've said about speeds? It's 5900 RPM.
This [amazon.com] page shows the full specs.
SSD is cheaper than HDD and provides significant faster loading times
Use HDD for storage is ok but at this point in time there is no reason to put on HDD
The non-plus Red are only $80 + free shipping at WD's site:
https://shop.westerndig
They should be $60 at this point, as the lowest tier drive.
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The non-plus Red are only $80 + free shipping at WD's site:
https://shop.westerndig
SSD is cheaper than HDD and provides significant faster loading times
Use HDD for storage is ok but at this point in time there is no reason to put on HDD
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The characteristics of these drives are low rotation speed, low cost per gigabyte which equates to low power consumption, heat generation and ultimately, reliability and long life. These old-style spinning hard-drives still have some usefulness. 5400-5900 rpm drives have replace 7200 rpm drives at capacities greater than 4tb probably for reliability and cost reasons.
If you want best performance in a desktop setting, go with an ssd. Ssds work great as desktop drives because read performance is better. Ssds have a finite write performance life span though so they are not best suited for heavy file writing.
They're orders of magnitude slower than SSDs for random read-writes, and they break much sooner than anything than the lowest tier of SSDs.
The characteristics of these drives are low rotation speed, low cost per gigabyte which equates to low power consumption, heat generation and ultimately, reliability and long life. These old-style spinning hard-drives still have some usefulness. 5400-5900 rpm drives have replace 7200 rpm drives at capacities greater than 4tb probably for reliability and cost reasons.
If you want best performance in a desktop setting, go with an ssd. Ssds work great as desktop drives because read performance is better. Ssds have a finite write performance life span though so they are not best suited for heavy file writing.
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This reminds me of back to the day of Green VS Red drives, where WD Green were the cheapest they sold, and Red were the 2nd most expensive on the Consumer market. Black drives being the only non-enterprise drives they sold at the time that were more expensive than Red. Blues at the time were closer to Blacks in spec, but they certainly didn't have the performance or cache. Purples were another 5400RPM with modified firmware.
Hardware wise, Greens and Reds were almost identical. In fact, there were some External Drive models that would randomly have either drive model in them when shucked. WD even treated them interchangeably.
The firmware was the biggest (only?) difference, and it wasn't so much that Red had super-magical firmware that somehow made it a better drive, it was that Greens had firmware that hampered performance and literally shortened their lifespan because the heads would park way too frequently. This was such a controversy when discovered, WD discontinued the Green line altogether.
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