Enterprise drive or Western Digital Blue?

[jukeston6]

I have a TOSHIBA MG03ACA200 that I got from Amazon and since that is an Enterprise drive, will there be any better performance using a Western Digital Blue? I just got a WD Blue drive from a laptop my friend allowed me to scrap for parts, and am considering to use that drive instead for my gaming desktop. I know that WD Black and SSDs are better, but I am on a tight budget and don't want to spend money on computer parts right now. I just want to know if I will get a performance boost from a WD Blue.

 

[Hellfire13]

Both are 7200rpm. So no real difference there. You are not likely to see any performance difference in real time.

 

[SoNic67]

WD Blue from a laptop? That's a 5400rpm drive. Are you really comparing a 3.5" drive with a 2.5" one?

 

[Hellfire13]

Opps, i seem to have missed the laptop part. Well spotted.
It is even worse than the Toshiba in this case.

 

[jukeston6]

WD Blue from a laptop? That's a 5400rpm drive. Are you really comparing a 3.5" drive with a 2.5" one?

I realize a laptop drive is slower than a desktop drive, I just wanna know if switching a boot drive from enterprise to desktop will make a difference. I heard somewhere using an enterprise drive has less performance than using a desktop drive becuase of firmware in the enterprise is designed to be used in an NAS and meant to be on 24/7.

 

[Hellfire13]

It consumes less power for the slower RPM and R/W, and can in a way gain in longevity. But what you gain in longevity, you loose in boot times and operational speeds. Here are some additional resources for you to delve in...

http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/enterprise_class_versus_desktop_class_hard_drives_.pdf
https://www.storagecraft.com/blog/consumer-vs-enterprise-hard-drives/

 

[jukeston6]

It consumes less power for the slower RPM and R/W, and can in a way gain in longevity. But what you gain in longevity, you loose in boot times and operational speeds. Here are some additional resources for you to delve in...

http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/enterprise_class_versus_desktop_class_hard_drives_.pdf
https://www.storagecraft.com/blog/consumer-vs-enterprise-hard-drives/

Thanks a whole lot for your help. I tried the laptop to see for myself what would happen, and the computer is SLOW compared to original hard drive. Fortunately I didn't delete the original hard drive's data, do I'll just go back to the way it was and use the laptop HDD as a backup for my gaming videos. Thanks a whole lot for your help!