Faster spinning drives = lower seek times. I'd also look at bulk throughput. If you wanted low seek times (maybe for a database or accessing tiny files?), you'd probably want SSD. Slower spinning drives will *probably* mean less frequent drive failure. (Heat tends to speed up failure, and more spinning = more heat.)
For picking specific drives though, I'd personally just go with what Backblaze has tested: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-q2-2019/ James Alton <https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&fingerprint=on&search=0x1118D3B092019ECC> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 8:02 AM Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: > The last time I bought a hard drive was nearly 8 years ago now, and my > little storage server just had a failure so I was shopping for a couple > of new disks for it. I've heard a lot of people really like the WD Red > drives, which are "designed for NAS," whatever that means. I am hard > pressed to find any drives that are 4 TB or larger that are 7200 rpm. > Seems like everything is 5400 rpm. Does this even matter? With the > bigger drive sizes are they back to using multiple platters and heads > such that the seek and transfer time on a 5400 drive? is still better > than any older 7200 rpm drive? > > Finally, for a desktop machine, would you go with a WD Blue drive? > Although with the price difference of a Red drive is just a few dollars, > would that be a good choice for a desktop computer? > > thanks, > Michael > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
