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Back to the build where I asked between 3 WD drives and the Toshiba drive on which one would be better, I am taking a closer look on the cost / TB, noise levels, and potential performance for both.
1: Western Digital Red
128MB cache
5400RPM
8TB space
2: Toshiba X300
128MB Cache
7200RPM
5TB space
If I get one of the WD reds it's 280 bucks for 8TB of 'slow' storage.
If I got two of the Toshibas, it would be 294 bucks for 10TB of 'fast' storage.
I know it's a nas drive vs desktop drive so the two of them will have fundamental differences in terms of performance expectations and proven reliability. But by how much?
My father is a Western Digital Fanatic and says that while Toshiba is making a good name for itself, he prefers WD.
The WD drive is sealed on both sides (and from what I red, probably filled with helium)
and has special anti-vibration voodoo hardware and firmware on it.
The Toshiba will have lower latency, but does that mean it would have better performance even with the two of them having the same buffer cache?
I recently looked at reviews on these as well as Userbenchmark's comparison between these. the Toshiba won out by a fair amount in performance, though too bad there's no noise listing.
I'm a bit confused on this and request some advice from either owners, reviewers, or people who know a lot more about these two drives than I do in general.
Thanks!
1: Western Digital Red
128MB cache
5400RPM
8TB space
2: Toshiba X300
128MB Cache
7200RPM
5TB space
If I get one of the WD reds it's 280 bucks for 8TB of 'slow' storage.
If I got two of the Toshibas, it would be 294 bucks for 10TB of 'fast' storage.
I know it's a nas drive vs desktop drive so the two of them will have fundamental differences in terms of performance expectations and proven reliability. But by how much?
My father is a Western Digital Fanatic and says that while Toshiba is making a good name for itself, he prefers WD.
The WD drive is sealed on both sides (and from what I red, probably filled with helium)
and has special anti-vibration voodoo hardware and firmware on it.
The Toshiba will have lower latency, but does that mean it would have better performance even with the two of them having the same buffer cache?
I recently looked at reviews on these as well as Userbenchmark's comparison between these. the Toshiba won out by a fair amount in performance, though too bad there's no noise listing.
I'm a bit confused on this and request some advice from either owners, reviewers, or people who know a lot more about these two drives than I do in general.
Thanks!
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