Question Seagate Barracuda 4TB but 5400RPM - good?

saarxee

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this drive with 5400RPM was good and fast?
Barracuda series was fast and better than other 7200 drives?

have deal for 4TB now.. only 65$

Good for Gaming and backups?
 

DSzymborski

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So why this drive expensive?
and barracuda fast series I think...
why only 5400?

If it's $65, it's not expensive. The Barracuda Pro is their 7200 4 TB drive and it goes for about $150. The least expensive 7200 4 TB drives go from $80-$100 and the higher-tier ones go into the $140-$150 range.

It's a slow hard drive, best used for bulk storage and media streaming. While you can use it for gaming, you asked if it is good for gaming. It is not.
 

DigDeep

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Actually 5400rpm vs 7200rpm means nothing, if HD is not good. I have new Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 2tb 256mb cache and while benchmarks are great, real world scenario sucks, copying drops to crawling 20MBs. I would be hapier if I bought 5400rpm WD Blue, I just know they are better, because even my old 512gb WD Green 5400rpm is faster than 2tb 7200rpm 256mb cache Seagate Barracuda. Everyone is looking at benchmarks, but people should look at copying file performance. I dont know what to do with this drive, I wanted to claim warranty, but I think disk would perform the same, I made a mistake and should have bought 2tb WD Blue EZRZ, but on paper Seagate looks better, thas why I went with Seagate.