IS THIS 7200 RMPS disk speed?
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I have no idea what the RMPS disk speed is for this external HD. I have 5 external hard drives and this is the fastest and easiest to use. I am a retired professional photographer with thousands of photos and time on my hands. Reliability is more important to me than speed. I would check with the manufacturer regarding the disk speed.
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Yes and no, I have two of them (2TB and 4TB), the 2TB is 7200 but the 4TB is 5900. It appears all of them are 7200 except for the 4TB.The models of the actual (internal) drives are ST2000DM001 and ST4000DM000. In case you want to google some more.
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Yes and no, I have two of them (2TB and 4TB), the 2TB is 7200 but the 4TB is 5900. It appears all of them are 7200 except for the 4TB. The models of the actual (internal) drives are ST2000DM001 and ST4000DM000. In case you want to google some more.
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I'm sorry I do not know, nor can I find any reference to its speed. I use thunderbolt to run my drive and it sizzles.
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I can check later when I take it offline. Right now the green disk access light is flashing rapidly indicating a lot of disk activity. In other words, it is currently recording some TV via my Snapstream / Beyond TV recording software. I'll get back to this maybe next week. I do know that it is 7200 RPM.
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My guess (as it's so hard to find the rpm spec anywhere on the WD site) is that it's 5400rpm. That said, it's pretty zippy and I've had no problems (other than Pro Tools refusing to work with it due to the non-Oxford chipset) streaming audio and video from it.
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according to crystal disk info the drive is 5400 rpm. I bought from Xotic PC though.
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It's 5400 rpm. Although 7200 rpm discs are usually faster at gathering data this hard drive will outperform both 5400 and 7200 standard hard drives. It's cache and solid state memory allows the drive to gather and process data very quickly. From the time I hit the power button to Windows 8.1 being up and ready to go usually clocks at around 14 to 18 seconds. I have an HP Envy DV6. Laptop with an I7 processor 6 gigs of Ram. Since installing this hard drive I have not found a desktop or another laptop that can keep up.
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It *is* SSD. All SSDs are not the same speed, but this will certainly be faster than any platter disk.
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... the drive is actually faster than advertised - maybe your system config needs a little tweaking ...
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This is not RAM. Of course Disk transfer speed is included in part of your score Windows Experience Index. I would guess this would rate a 5.4 or so.
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I am using it as the OS drive with the rapid software. I am getting over 1200 read and write speeds to it is true.
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No, or it would be considerably more expensive. 5400RPM / 8MB cache per mfg's Web site. I found it fast enough to please me when backing up data and plugged into a modern USB 3.0 port, but quite a bit slower attached to an older computer that only had USB 2.0 ports.
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5400 is actually better (or at the very least, no worse) than 7200 for large files since the heads spend less time bouncing around the platters trying to find your data. Also once you RAID these, which is what they're designed for, they'll be plenty fast enough that you won't think twice about how fast they spin.
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It's 5400RPM, so access times are "slower" than a 7200RPM drive. It has an 8meg cache vs. a 16m cache. I'd venture to say that neither of these are noticeable to the typical user. It's hot-pluggable SATA II, which are current capabilities. The 7200RPM/16m version is only about $5 more.
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Just got the 128GB version. Running Crystal Disk Mark 64bit - Sequential Read: 100.7MB/s Write: 100.8MB/s 512K read 25.2MB/s write: 57.11MBs 4K random read: 0.263MB/S write 0.943MB/s 4K random QD32 read: 0.457MB/s write: 0.694MB/s - Hope this helps everyone to decide!
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I had an issue with the 7200 rpm drive not booting up from my MacBook Pro, and returned it for a refund. I have several of these running at the slower speed (5600 rpm) with no problems, though I did have one that had a port that loosened and became unusable.
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My benchmark using CrystalDiskMark shows its sequential write speed is 12MB/s. That means it meets class-10 requirement.
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Dear Jose, These G-Drives come in 5400 and 7200rpm versions... read carefully! Luke
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I have not seen the actual specs, but it is slow , probably 5400rpm . This drive is good for back up, not immediate access time. That costs more , you know. DR