>faster seek times

I'd guess maybe a third faster ;)

inb4
>reddit

I know you /g/, I know you.

>>19892685
samefagging
op read this: forum.notebookreview(dot)com/hardware-components-aftermarket-upgrades/288101-hard-drive-recommendati
ons-benchmarks-5400-rpm-7200-rpm.html

>>19892714
>;)
>>>/b/

>>19892739
You mean
>emoticon
>>>/anywhereontheinternet/

>retarded question
>reddit image
-1/10
too obvious

>>19892756
answer the question then master

The difference will prolly be negligible, not as huge as, say, buying an SSD. Just go with the one with the biggest space.

>>19892739
You seem angry.

>>19892736
>Article from 2009, talking about 2.5" HDDs; doesn't say shit about the speed difference in general except for some specific 2.5" drives.

>>19892790
thanks man, at least someone is helpful

>>19892685
Ok i'm going to go with a probably wrong but logical hypothesis that a 7200RPM drive will be no more than but close to 33% faster than a 5400RPM drive, as I would expect rotational speed to be directly related to the speed it can read data from platters, assuming all modern drives have similar if not the same density of data on the platters. I would expect the speed difference to be most noticeable when copying large sequential files, and least noticeable when copying many smaller or fragmented files.

Derp. If you need enough file storage to justify a 500GB drive, you need 7200rpm. They are cheap. This is a question for 4 years ago when they were not so cheap. Today's issues are: Do I want an SSD for OS and big drive for storage, or am I a fag, or what.

I got a 1TB WD Green, which is 5900rpm but boosts to 7200rpm on demand (apparently)

But it's become rather slow, maybe because it hasn't defragmented in over 7 months. I've only dumped about 90GB onto it, though it's unpartitioned and used as the system drive.

I'm wondering if defragging would be wise, or make that much of a difference. But I think in future I'll either get an SSD or definitely a 7200rpm drive, because I can't stand when things open slowly.

>>19892889
>used as the system drive

doing it COMPLETELY. FUCKING. WRONG.

Green drives are for storage only.

>>19892920
It's the only decent drive I've got.

>>19892685
>7500rpm
>5000rpm
>700GB

>>19892685

>>>/http://reddit.com/

Once you go there, you're never welcomed back on 4chan

>>19893080
About half of 4chan goes there, and we all hate each other here anyway.

>>19892739

Emoticons = Reaction Images without the bloat

Reaction Images = Imageboard

Imageboard = 4chan

>>>/http://google.com/

To look for a new forum/imageboard

>>19892889
>boosts to 7200rpm
nope
>But it's become rather slow, maybe because it hasn't defragmented in over 7 months.
nope, its cus its a wd green used as system drive.

google "X reasons not to use a green for system drive"

defragging doesnt have shit to do with it.

save your allowance a little bit longer.

>700GB
>5000rpm
>2011

>>19893094
Fuck! Well that's the last time I'm getting a 'green' drive then. Did some googling and seems that performance on the black is way higher.

Only got the green because it was recommended to me by an 'expert'. Guess he didn't expect me to expect high performance from my drive.