Is this HDD good for games?

[Pyroka]

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150245

Basically I've bought it already, sort of. I took apart my External hard drive and found this model inside it, so I took it out of the casing and have now placed it in my case. It'll work properly because yeah, its got the same SATA and power connections I need for it to work. Woot woot. Anyweee, what my worry is, is that the transfer rate or w.e may not live up to what my Processor (AMD X4 940 3ghz) and RAM (OCZ 1066mhz RAM) can fully achieve.

Do you think its decent enough, or should I buy an extra one in the future so I can run it at full capacity? I'm gonna install XP on it temporarily so its like, no big deal.

[Chippiewill]

It's a pretty good HDD, Western Digital are very good....

2000 Post!!!! Yes I am that sad

[GommeInc]

That's an interesting way to get an internal hard drive :P It looks good enough, so should be enough for anything really - games included.

[Pyroka]

Well hey, I spent 99 quid on the external and I hate having to plug it into the wall all the time, so why not make better use of it and save having to spend an extra £65 quid on something similiar to it?! :D

I'm just worried about the transfer speeds really... cuz its green edition and all that. Oh my word, my 850W PSU is gonna be like never used LOL.

[Tomm]

Well unless you get a top of the range SSD then you are not even going to get close to the speed SATA-II can handle.

[Pyroka]

Alright thennn, well I'm not gonna invest in a SSD YET. Its a bit expensive atm... Hmmmm!! Right keeps the feedbacks coming, thanks everyone, i'll try and distribute some +reps :)

[Stephen!]

You don't really need to worry about the speed of your hard drive affecting your gaming experience as long as it's a 7200rpm drive.

[N!ck]

It's a "green" drive so they've concentrated on energy efficiency rather than speed as the drives that go in external cases don't need to be fast.

IT should be fine though and reasonably fast still as it's 1TB (larger is generally faster) and still 7200rpm as far as I know.

[Pyroka]

Hmmm alright then, thanks for that N!ck. I'll probably have to buy an extra 500GB drive which runs like **** on a stick, but I'll buy it as and when I have the money to afford it. I think it'd be fine to run an operating system on it I guess, and a few other things until I have the money to buy something new ^_^

EDIT: Thanks also Stephen :D Spreading the reppage!

[The Professor]

Maybe I'm being naive but does a hard drive make all that much difference to game performance? I'd have thought with the graphics card and cpu and ram to worry about, hard drive speed would be negligable. Someone enlighten me :P

[Mentor]

I imagine gaming performance would be uneffected, only thing hdd speed's likely to effect is the time it takes a game to install or start up. Once running, most the active stuff will be in ram anyway, and windows does a good job of pageing, so unless you have a very limited amount of ram, your hdd speed should be more aless unnoticable however slow "/

[Pyroka]

Alex, its the fact that my CPU, RAM & GFX are so epicly epicly fast that I'm worried my hard drive wont take full advantage of the write speeds. I thought it would because it'd be a bit slower in terms of transferring stuff into the RAM and what have you... idk, I might be speaking out my arse now.

[N!ck]

Alex, its the fact that my CPU, RAM & GFX are so epicly epicly fast that I'm worried my hard drive wont take full advantage of the write speeds. I thought it would because it'd be a bit slower in terms of transferring stuff into the RAM and what have you... idk, I might be speaking out my arse now.

It's just initial loadng times. Once whatever has loaded it has very little to do with the hard drive, just reading and writing the odd small file every so often.

[Flisker]

The major bottleneck in most PC's is the Hard Drive (excluding those with SSD's) as they cannot do get the data and chuck it out to the CPU quick enough.

Yeah I highly recommend Western Digital hard drives :D