can 5400rpm cause game lag after map load?

[Morphine06]

Problem: Intermittent skipping, stuttering, hitching, lagging during games using green 1TB hard drive.
Solution: Green drives firmware is immune to windows power settings and turn themselves of frequently causing these issues.

Answer post by:

Is there a predictable time gap between when the drive is last accessed and when the hiccup occurs?
I think the green drive has its own function to suspend the drive, that cannot be controlled and is completely independent of the drive sleep settings in windows.
Sorry I don't have a green drive to test/verify this myself, just info I've come across that I'm passing on as hearsay.

I'm getting a hitch in game. I was running resource monitor while playing and the hitch is linked to disk usage spikes. The drive with the spikes is a 1TB 5400rpm 32mb cache green western digital. I recently reinstalled windows and pulled this drive from my server as a secondary drive where its sole purpose is to run my Steam games. This was the only hardware change between the installs and that's when the issue began.

 

[RavenSEAL]

You really don't wanna be gaming on a 5400RPM HDD, it'll kill you and the HDD itself.

 

[Prey2big]

You really don't wanna be gaming on a 5400RPM HDD, it'll kill you and the HDD itself.

hear hear, well said.

Haven't had a 5400rpm drive since the 90's iirc. Good ole "loading lag" is dead and gone, now that I play all my games off of my 2 SSD's.

 

[Morphine06]

I'm not looking for opinions on what drive would work best for my games drive, I'm just asking if there's any reason a 5400rpm or 32mb cache drive would have any impact on performance after the map is loaded. Slow map load is the obvious downside of 5400.

How does it "kill the drive"? What's the difference between loading a map off a hard drive and serving files from my server?

 

[KingFatty]

Is there a predictable time gap between when the drive is last accessed and when the hiccup occurs?

I think the green drive has its own function to suspend the drive, that cannot be controlled and is completely independent of the drive sleep settings in windows.

Sorry I don't have a green drive to test/verify this myself, just info I've come across that I'm passing on as hearsay.

 

[Zorander]

If the game is accessing the drive during a live game (caching, saving, texture loads, etc - not just map loading), you will experience stutter especially if it does not read/write fast enough.

 

[Morphine06]

I think the green drive has its own function to suspend the drive, that cannot be controlled and is completely independent of the drive sleep settings in windows.

Ahh. That is interesting. I used that as my research terminology and found people with similar issues that got similar answers. It sounds like I'll be unable to change that power setting within W7. I think my green drive is going back to my server where it belongs and I'm in the market for a new secondary drive.

Much appreciated.