7200 RPM Western Digital vs 5900 RPM Seagate

[Xuebao61]

Alright, so I'm in the market for a larger HDD for games that I own. Newegg is currently having a sale on some of its hard drives. The two I'm looking at are this WD Black and this Seagate drive , both are within $2-3 of each other. So, the WD is a Black drive with 2TB of storage and operates at 7200RPM, as the Seasgate is a Barracuda drive with 4TB of storage operating at 5900RPM. I'm a little inexperienced in this field because I have never used any drives slower than 7200RPM. Would the bit of extra speed and Western Digital's dependability really be worth sacrificing 2TB of space? Or are the Seagate drives just as good, and would the 1300RPM loss not matter too much? Thank you for your answers.

 

[Rogue Leader]

In my experience the quality is the same.

In terms of playing games off the drive I would never get a 5900rpm drive anymore, with newer bigger games they are too slow.

 

[Xuebao61]

Thank you for your answer. I'll probably see if Seagate has a 7200RPM 4TB, or get a smaller capacity from them running at 7200RPM.

 

[alexb75]

For games, 7200 RPM. See if you need 4TB or not.