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    Fastest 2.5" HDD available?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by sirana, Sep 11, 2012.

  1. sirana

    sirana Notebook Deity

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    Hey guys,

    I'm looking for the fastest 2.5" HDD in terms of pure write speed.

    I know that Seagates Momentus XT HDDs have an inbuilt SSD cache to accelerate applications and stuff, but I'm looking for an internal HDD for data storage/screen capturing only.

    My guess is the Scorpio Black. Anyone knows a faster one?
     
    sirana, Sep 11, 2012
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  2. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

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    Nothing faster than the scorpio black as far as i know, the momentus 750GB and the hitachi 7K750 come pretty close and for a data drive, it's not really like it matters much.
     
    tijo, Sep 11, 2012
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  3. whitrzac

    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    750gb WD black...


    IRRC someone else has the fastest for 500gb/320gb/etc...
     
    whitrzac, Sep 11, 2012
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  4. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Momentus is still only a read cache so yeah the black. Ofc if it's very important then 512GB SSDs are not that expensive these days and would be way faster.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Sep 12, 2012
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  5. sirana

    sirana Notebook Deity

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    Well true, but I have a Crucial M4 for my OS already. I just need a HDD for storage and recording stuff on, and I went for the Momentus XT 750GB 7200 RPM... I know its not the best in write speed, but I might use it for Steam which will probably benefit from the SSD cache.

    Also thanks for the replies guys!
     
    sirana, Sep 13, 2012
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  6. Krane

    Krane Notebook Prophet

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    Seven times more expensive? No.
     
    Krane, Sep 13, 2012
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