Hi guys 
I want to buy a fast 4TB drive at about the WD REd or Blue price level. WD Blue costs 100€ for me, Red 120€ and Black 180€ which is way too expensive.
I've checked my existing 1TB and 4TB Blues using HD Tune and I've found a HD Tune benchmark for 4TB Black WD Black 4TB HD tune benchmark. My 4TB Blue has about the same numbers (Min 72, Max 161, Avg 121MB/s, Access 16ms).
Can I get faster speed than this without getting to the Red Pro price per TB? It seems from these benchmarks that most cheap WD drives are equally slow and it's more cost effective to setup RAID.
Will I get a speed increase if I get a 6TB or 8TB drive? I've read somewhere that bigger drives have bigger speeds but my older 1TB Blue actually outperformed my newer 4TB Blue on the HD Tune benchmark by 15 MB/s.
My bottleneck right now is loading whole 200-300MB files into memory. This creates a bit of a snag, specially when I need multiple files at the same time
I want to buy a fast 4TB drive at about the WD REd or Blue price level. WD Blue costs 100€ for me, Red 120€ and Black 180€ which is way too expensive.
I've checked my existing 1TB and 4TB Blues using HD Tune and I've found a HD Tune benchmark for 4TB Black WD Black 4TB HD tune benchmark. My 4TB Blue has about the same numbers (Min 72, Max 161, Avg 121MB/s, Access 16ms).
Can I get faster speed than this without getting to the Red Pro price per TB? It seems from these benchmarks that most cheap WD drives are equally slow and it's more cost effective to setup RAID.
Will I get a speed increase if I get a 6TB or 8TB drive? I've read somewhere that bigger drives have bigger speeds but my older 1TB Blue actually outperformed my newer 4TB Blue on the HD Tune benchmark by 15 MB/s.
My bottleneck right now is loading whole 200-300MB files into memory. This creates a bit of a snag, specially when I need multiple files at the same time