Does anyone have a Western digital 1 or 2TB black series 7200 rpm hard drive?

[Drago]

If so, is it fast and loud?

[CursedPanther]

It'll never be as fast as an SSD for sure. As for the noise, some cases have shock absorbing pads for the 3.5" HDD slots so one can barely hear it during full speed spinning.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

WD Black Series are quiet drives, at least compared to other brands. Faster then your average 7200 rpm but ofc nowhere near the SSD level.

[Drago]

I dont really mind it being slower than an SSD i know that but i have a 1TB laptop and it takes like 10-15 minutes to load everything so it doesnt go slow. Is the hard drive better than what I have to deal with?

[CursedPanther]

Most of the laptop HDD are 5400rpm ones so they're more friendly on the battery draining. A 7200rpm HDD will certainly perform better.

[Seven7]

and some laptops use 4900...5400rpm single disk\head hdd blue and green or have hybrid hdd+small ssd as disk cache, usual it cheaper slow SSD + slow HDD = slow hybrid SSHD
+ all laptops have zillion pre-installed crapware, bad optimization, energy saving settings that slowdown system if you try use it as gaming pc

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Might be considered a bit on the loud size when alot of writing is occurring; but generally still quieter then most Seagate mechanical HDDs.

Plus it can depend how you are mounting your HDDs. If it is a case where their is a solid 3.5" HDD cage area (like cheap cases have) then generally you will have more drive noise and vibration cause there is no cushion between the HDD and the PC Chassis.

[MadChicken]

My PC has 4 WD Black 2TB 7.200 RPM HDD's (1x WD2001FASS / 3x WD2002FAEX).

Although they are mounted with rubber rings to my case, you can certainly hear them.
As long as the HDD's are idle or only write/read one thing at the time, the noise they produce is barely audible.

Things get very different when one or more of the HDD's gets more than one reading or writing task at the same time. For example: when i'm (un)packing some large zip/rar file and at the same time i'm using that same HDD for another task that takes some time, the HDD starts vibrating a lot more and produces some clearly audible sound. The amount of noise also depends on the way the HDD is mounted to your case and to the case itself of course.

When they start vibrating, my PC case is far from quiet, but it only happens occasionally, so i can't be bothered with it. 7.200 RPM HDD's are build for performance, the down side of those drives is that they're not as quiet as 5.400 or lower RPM HDD's. WD Black HDD's are no exception.

For that bit of noise you get one hell of a harddisk. My experience is that the WD Black HHD's are very reliable. In the past 15 years i've used nothing but WD HHD's (mainly Black) and they've never let me down. I recommend them to any one who isn't looking to build a whisper silent PC.

Today i use my HDD's for data storage only. Even with 4 WD Black HDD's i still think my PC is quiet 99% of the time. That was very different when i used HDD's for Windows/Apps/Games installs. SSD's didn't only fasten up your system, they also made it a lot quieter.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

And they are well worth it.

Look at the failure rate of drives too, not just speed.
WD Blue (newer than 2013), WD Black, Red, Purple... any of those are much more reliable then any Seagate Barracuda series, hands down.

If you have a super quiet PC, like an HTPC for Living Room Media for example; run the OS off an SSD (even a small one like 120GB is fine) and then get a WD Purple 4TB or larger, and that would do the job and be ultra quiet.

If you have alot of media, then don't bother to get WD Black, as that performance is not needed, even for 4K Bluray movies playing from HDD. You can use WD Purple for such applications as Media, or reliable NAS based storage.

If you have a ton of media you want shared throughout your home, buy a NAS and set that up with some decent drives like WD Purple. Or take an older PC, install a PCIE SATA card in it, and house many drives within that system. Then config Remote Desktop and such on that so you can access it from other PCs in the home if need to configure something. For drive/file sharing, use Network Sharing in the OS.

[banzaigtv]

I have a 4 GB version and it's audible when it loads something. Sometimes it hangs momentarily in Windows 10, though, but other than that, it's one of the faster HDDs.

This message was posted Wednesday, September 21, 2016 @ 1:33 AM CDT

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by banzaigtv:

I have a 4 GB version and it's audible when it loads something. Sometimes it hangs momentarily in Windows 10, though, but other than that, it's one of the faster HDDs.

That can be normal with any secondary HDD, due to the OS has a default 20 min sleep mode in place for HDDs in the Power Options Profile; which you can change.

[banzaigtv]

Originally posted by Bad-Motha:

Originally posted by banzaigtv:

I have a 4 GB version and it's audible when it loads something. Sometimes it hangs momentarily in Windows 10, though, but other than that, it's one of the faster HDDs.

That can be normal with any secondary HDD, due to the OS has a default 20 min sleep mode in place for HDDs in the Power Options Profile; which you can change.

Oh, thanks. I did not realize that the Windows 10 anniversary update arbitrarily reset my power settings. LOL

[Air]

Originally posted by banzaigtv:

I have a 4 GB version and it's audible when it loads something. Sometimes it hangs momentarily in Windows 10, though, but other than that, it's one of the faster HDDs.

My 3TB WD Black drive makes a lot of noise as well, but my 1TB is dead silent. Even exchanged the 3TB drive for another, since I thought it was faulty, only to have the same noise. I guess it's just a factor of the higher-capacity WD Black drives.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by banzaigtv:

Originally posted by Bad-Motha:

That can be normal with any secondary HDD, due to the OS has a default 20 min sleep mode in place for HDDs in the Power Options Profile; which you can change.

Oh, thanks. I did not realize that the Windows 10 anniversary update arbitrarily reset my power settings. LOL

It resets nearly everything... FYI

[upcoast]

Yes I have a WD Black 1TB drive and I have Seagate 3TB/4TB and a whole lot of other drives, I don't find it loud, I do find it's not one of the fastest drives out there the Seagate 3 TB 001 is faster, cooler and quieter. Where the black is better is multi access use.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/61018-seagate-desktop-hdd-15-4tb-hard-drive-review-10.html

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well the WD Black 1TB is known to be a bit slower compared to the Black 2TB or 4TB

Black 1TB will barely break 200MB/ps read; but the other two should have no issues going a bit above that. That is via Intel SATA-6G Chipset, using ACHI Mode.