which is a better hdd wd blue 1 tb ,Seagate ST1000LX015 or seagate baracuda 1tb ST1000LM048

[DRUNKCJ]

i am confused regarding my decision. please tell me the pros and cons .

 

[nitinvaid20]

go for the WD blue seagate baracuda are low RPM drives

 

[DRUNKCJ]

go for the WD blue seagate baracuda are low RPM drives

but the wd blue has 5400 rpm whereas seagate has 7200rpm

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Choose a WD drive, Seagate have a poor reliability record in my experience (gathered over 35 years of buying hard drives, that's a lot of experience I think you'll agree).

 

[das_stig]

WD Blue, they don't die as quickly as Seagate's.

 

[DRUNKCJ]

Choose a WD drive, Seagate have a poor reliability record in my experience (gathered over 35 years of buying hard drives, that's a lot of experience I think you'll agree).

then should i go for this model WD10JPVX

 

[DRUNKCJ]

WD Blue, they don't die as quickly as Seagate's.

then should i go for this model WD10JPVX

 

[nitinvaid20]

WD Blue, they don't die as quickly as Seagate's.

then should i go for this model WD10JPVX

Thats for Laptop

 

[das_stig]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0088PUEPK/?tag=pcp0f-21

£42.97 inc delivery and vat

 

[DRUNKCJ]

WD Blue, they don't die as quickly as Seagate's.

then should i go for this model WD10JPVX

Thats for Laptop

oh sorry i forgot to mention that i need hdd for my laptop(2.5")

 

[DRUNKCJ]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0088PUEPK/?tag=pcp0f-21

£42.97 inc delivery and vat

oh sorry i forgot to mention that i need hdd for my laptop(2.5")

 

[Solandri]

AVOID the WD Blue drives. Western Digital puts a very short head parking timer on their 5400 RPM drives. They will park their heads after something like 10-15 seconds of inactivity. When the OS needs data off the drive, it's forced to wait for a split second while the heads unpark. This can cause stuttering in games, and if your pagefile is on the drive it can cause the entire OS (including the mouse pointer) to freeze momentarily every time the drive has to unpark the heads to access the pagefile.

I initially thought the issue was limited to WD's 5400 RPM laptop drives and Green desktop drives. But I've seen at least one report of the issue from the owner of a 5400 RPM Blue desktop drive. At this point, I would only trust the 7200 RPM WD drives, and avoid all their 5400 RPM drives (including SSHDs).

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3291249/hdd-giving-problems-games.html

My laptop has a SSD + WD blue HDD. About 2 years ago I experimented with putting the pagefile on the HDD to save some space on the SSD. And I experienced the exact same problems the person in the above link did. (I developed that batch file while troubleshooting exactly what the problem was.)

 

[das_stig]

Have SSD+WD Blue in my laptop with temp folder, pagefile and SoftwareDistribution on the WD and never had a stuttering issue?

Hitachi are doing a decent drive 32MB cache and 7200rpm

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00B4QESVQ/?tag=pcp0f-21

Seagate are doing an interesting one, 128MB cache but 5400rpm

http://www.ebuyer.com/760590-seagate-barracuda-laptop-1tb-2-5-hard-drive-7mm-at-ebuyer-com-st1000lm048