WD Velociraptor 600GB vs WD Black 2TB, windows startup time.

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I know that for maximum performance I should consider SSD,
but please consider off topic talking about SSD here.

I want just to know the difference in Windows startup time from the WD Velociraptor 600GB to WD Black 2TB.

Is there someone who made this comparison?
How much faster in seconds will be a Velociraptor ?
I read somewhere up to 10 seconds less, is this true?
 
Well seek performance would be 38% faster than 7200rpm. But it would be slower than 5400rpm regarding sequential transfers, or at least very comparable.

Personally, buying 10k rpm disks at this point is wasting your money. If you can't buy SSD now, save up the money until you can. Especially with new generation of SSDs coming in February.

The fastest HDDs today use 666GB platters; that's the Samsung F4 series and WD EARS (5400rpm only). You could buy a 5400rpm disk now and an SSD later; recent 5400rpm disks are quite fast and might even beat your Velociraptor in sequential transfers.
 
It doesn't really matter, with Windows startup time is one of the things least affected by the speed of the storage media. Windows has a certain way it goes about doing things when it's booting and loading and all the speed in the world doesn't make up for most of that. You do notice a small difference with SSDs but not much, and with mechanical drives it really isn't going to be a noticable difference between any modern unit.

If you're not interested in purchasing an SSD just get something cheap, reliable, and with a decent amount of cache (32MB or larger). The new Samsung F4 mentioned by sub.mesa is a very good choice...
 
Well seek performance would be 38% faster than 7200rpm. But it would be slower than 5400rpm regarding sequential transfers, or at least very comparable.

Personally, buying 10k rpm disks at this point is wasting your money. If you can't buy SSD now, save up the money until you can. Especially with new generation of SSDs coming in February.

The fastest HDDs today use 666GB platters; that's the Samsung F4 series and WD EARS (5400rpm only). You could buy a 5400rpm disk now and an SSD later; recent 5400rpm disks are quite fast and might even beat your Velociraptor in sequential transfers.

Samsung F4 is faster than WD Black?
What about the new SSD generation? What will be the improvements in this new SSD generation?
 
OP asks to NOT talk about SSD's and someone stills brings them up. Typical.

10k RPM HDD's are not a waste of money, especially if that's what you want to spend your hard earned money on. They still are the best performing mechanical drives and do not require the "maintenance" or decreased performance over time of Solid State Drives. 200Mb transfers now...200Mb transfers 3 years from now.

Anyway.... DO NOT turn the OP's thread into another Raptor vs. SSD futile garbage thread.

I would believe the Velociraptor will give you the best startup performance between the two OP.
 
OP asks to NOT talk about SSD's and someone stills brings them up. Typical.

10k RPM HDD's are not a waste of money, especially if that's what you want to spend your hard earned money on. They still are the best performing mechanical drives and do not require the "maintenance" or decreased performance over time of Solid State Drives. 200Mb transfers now...200Mb transfers 3 years from now.

Anyway.... DO NOT turn the OP's thread into another Raptor vs. SSD futile garbage thread.

I would believe the Velociraptor will give you the best startup performance between the two OP.

I don't know that SSD needs maintenance... Is there a lot of performance drop during time?

Returning in topic, will I see noticeble performance improvement buying a WD Velociraptor instead of a WD Black?
 
Get yourself the WD2001FASS, it's just under $170 when it's on sale and it's FASSSSST!
It's faster than the samsung F4 and F3. It beats its own WD Velociraptor in some cases and other cases are about on-par. *Short-Stroke* is the key.

Here is my newly installed WD2001FASS Benches. in Full HD Test, Short-Stroked 200gb/100gb. Depends on the amount of storage you need, go from anywhere between 50gb-200gb and partition the rest for your long-term storage.

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Using Intel's latest RST driver 9.6.0.1014


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Access time is really better on velociraptor...
this should improve overall performance, this should mean that you "feel" a more responsive system...
I would understand how much this feeling is better than a Black.
 
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