Possible nice find?

[Xeris]

Hello there everyone! I was digging through some old computer parts, that are literally ancient, when I came across an unopened WD Caviar Green 808.8GB hard drive. This is kind of neat for me because if it is working, it just saved me about 100$ for a new HDD I just wanted to know if the SATA 3.0GB/s would interfere with a 6.0GB/s SSD in any way because I intend to be using the SSD as a boot drive and also all my main applications installed on it and the HDD would be the storage. Would I be better off selling this and buying a 6GB/s one? Help is greatly appreciated!

 

[beginner99]

Hello there everyone! I was digging through some old computer parts, that are literally ancient, when I came across an unopened WD Caviar Green 808.8GB hard drive. This is kind of neat for me because if it is working, it just saved me about 100$ for a new HDD I just wanted to know if the SATA 3.0GB/s would interfere with a 6.0GB/s SSD in any way because I intend to be using the SSD as a boot drive and also all my main applications installed on it and the HDD would be the storage. Would I be better off selling this and buying a 6GB/s one? Help is greatly appreciated!

Nope. Mechanical HDDs are way to slow to require SATA 6GB/s and green drives aren't specially known for their performance numbers. With that drive I guess you get 90MByte/s max transfer. So even SATA-1 would suffice.

 

[Blain]

Hello there everyone! I was digging through some old computer parts, that are literally ancient, when I came across an unopened WD Caviar Green 808.8GB hard drive. This is kind of neat for me because if it is working, it just saved me about 100$ for a new HDD

I'd be curious as to what the warranty expiration date was.

 

[Xeris]

Nope. Mechanical HDDs are way to slow to require SATA 6GB/s and green drives aren't specially known for their performance numbers. With that drive I guess you get 90MByte/s max transfer. So even SATA-1 would suffice.

So if I wanted to store files or transfer files between the ssd and the HDD, would getting a faster HDD make a difference in storing/transfering? Lets say I wanted to transfer a 5GB folder from my SSD to my HDD. Would getting a 7200rpm Caviar Black be faster than a 5400 Caviar Green? It is only being used for storage so does speed matter? Thanks for the help!:biggrin:

 

[Cerb]

So if I wanted to store files or transfer files between the ssd and the HDD, would getting a faster HDD make a difference in storing/transfering? Lets say I wanted to transfer a 5GB folder from my SSD to my HDD. Would getting a 7200rpm Caviar Black be faster than a 5400 Caviar Green? It is only being used for storage so does speed matter?

First, all drives are used for storage. That's all they do. Second, it depends on what that 5GB folder is made up of. The smaller the average file size, the slower it will be. A Caviar Black will be faster, but how much depends on usage.

 

[Lotheron]

So if I wanted to store files or transfer files between the ssd and the HDD, would getting a faster HDD make a difference in storing/transfering? Lets say I wanted to transfer a 5GB folder from my SSD to my HDD. Would getting a 7200rpm Caviar Black be faster than a 5400 Caviar Green? It is only being used for storage so does speed matter? Thanks for the help!:biggrin:

If you're only using it for long term storage, speed makes no difference other than when you're transferring to and from the drive. For static storage, using Green drives are beneficial as they use less power. As said earlier, even SATAI is fast enough for most drives (other than the WD Raptor drives,etc). The drive should be more than fast enough to read media and other files.