WD Caviar Green Storage For Gaming

[trance4life]

Hi Guys !

I'm thinking about getting a new PC soon , but a have a very limited budget , i'have choosen nearly all the components, but i'm stock between getting a new WD Caviar Black for gaming or an SSD because i allready have 1Tb of Caviar Green 5400Rpm/64Mo Cache. So i'm wondering if i need to get that 2nd Caviar Black for gaming or i don't need that and i keep my Green HDD for gaming storage and Get an SSD for Boot instead 😍 .


Thanks my friends.

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey trance4life. This depends solely on you preference and everybody may give you different type of advice depending on how they see things. I would usually always recommend an SSD for the OS with an HDD on the side for most apps/games. In this case however if I were you, I'd probably go with both HDDs because of the storage capacity and performance of the WD Black drive. And another thing, the WD Green drive is designed to be used as secondary storage and is a good HDD (quiet and cool), but depending on the games you want to play, I wouldn't recommend it for heavy duty gaming on 60fps and 1080p. On the other hand if you think it's going to be enough for what you want to use it - go with the SSD + WD Green.

Let me know if you have any questions.
Cheers,
Boogieman_WD

 

[trance4life]

Hey trance4life. This depends solely on you preference and everybody may give you different type of advice depending on how they see things. I would usually always recommend an SSD for the OS with an HDD on the side for most apps/games. In this case however if I were you, I'd probably go with both HDDs because of the storage capacity and performance of the WD Black drive. And another thing, the WD Green drive is designed to be used as secondary storage and is a good HDD (quiet and cool), but depending on the games you want to play, I wouldn't recommend it for heavy duty gaming on 60fps and 1080p. On the other hand if you think it's going to be enough for what you want to use it - go with the SSD + WD Green.

Let me know if you have any questions.
Cheers,
Boogieman_WD

I'm wanting that ADATA SX900 so damn hard , i'm gonna play games more or less on MAX settings i'm planing to get an i7 4770k + MSI 780GTX OC Gaming edition , is this drive gonna bottleneck my system ? The SSD gonna have 128GB maybe i can instal few games on it but i don't know if this capacity will allow me to do gaming and other stuff as well :/

 

[Boogieman_WD]

I'm wanting that ADATA SX900 so damn hard , i'm gonna play games more or less on MAX settings i'm planing to get an i7 4770k + MSI 780GTX OC Gaming edition , is this drive gonna bottleneck my system ? The SSD gonna have 128GB maybe i can instal few games on it but i don't know if this capacity will allow me to do gaming and other stuff as well :/

You will be able to put some games on the SSD, but as you said they will probably be only a few having in mind the size of games nowadays. If you are really set on the SSD - get it and use the WD Green for the other stuff (more games, videos, photos etc.) since you already have it. And if you're not satisfied with its performance get a WD Black later. Generally the WD Green shouldn't bottleneck your system, but it will have longer loading time for games and if you are streaming/recording 60fps and 1080p I wouldn't recommend it. Otherwise everything else should be OK, you'll still get the same graphics and everything.

 

[trance4life]

Thank you Boogieman_WD

I'll probably go with the SSD + WD green and maybe i'll get another black later since they are much expensive

Thnaks for the help , maybe other advice ?

 

[DonQuixoteMC]

Yeah, I strongly recommend you go the SSD + WD Green route. I've never seen a (modern, new) hard drive negatively impact in-game performance. The biggest and (observably only) difference is load time. Long story short, only your wallet will feel the difference between a Green and a Black (as far as gaming is concerned).

That said, I've heard some nasty things about the power saving features of the WD Greens (Specifically: the WD Green Drive, to save energy, parks the drive heads after 8 seconds of inactivity. Why's this a problem? Each drive is rated for only a certain number of "Load/Unload" cycles, so when the drive's head gets prematurely parked and unparked during everyday use, this Load/Unload Cycle count goes through the roof. This not only puts unecessary wear on the drive, but it also may quickly put that cycle count above what the drive is rated for. Sometimes this means that the manufacturer won't honor their warranty if the rated Load/Unload Cycle has been surpassed).

Now, this doesn't stops me from buying WD Greens, BUT I recommend you at least consider disabling it. Here's one of the more comprehensive guides on going about it. http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/hacking-wd-greens-and-reds-with-wdidle3-exe.18171/