2 Drives can you help?

[larrys2006]

Of these two drives what is the better drive for playing movies on and shooter games.

WD Black 1TB 7200RPM 64MB WD1002FAEX

Transfer Rate (Buffer To Disk)126 MB/s (Max)


Temperature Operating 32° F to 140° F
Non-operating-40° F to 158° F
Current Requirements Power Dissipation Read/Write 6.80

Watts Idle 6.10
Watts Standby 0.70
Watts Sleep 0.70






seagate ST320005N1A1AS-RK 2tb

Spin Speed 7200 RPM Sustained data transfer rate 138Mb/s

Average latency 4.16ms

Random read seek time 8.5ms

Random write seek time 9.5ms

I/O data transfer rate 600MB/s

start max current 2.8A

Average idle power 6.39W

Average operating power 9.23W

 

[Ben90]

They are going to be basically the exact same, you might save .1 seconds loading with one or the other. If that matters to you google is a great friend.

 

[Soundmanred]

You would be able to tell no difference between those two drives playing the movies and the shooting games.

 

[pitz]

The Seagate, because you could partition it to only use the first 1Tb, hence, reducing the seek times.

Plus you get more space if you eventually need/want it, on the Seagate.

Don't know how the prices shake out (you haven't quoted any!), but the Seagate is obviously the better drive out of the two.