Need help choosing a HDD

Im still not that knowledgeable between the MBPS, MB/s and RPM.

Okay, let me see if I can help with that.

HDDs, all of them, are really freaking slow, full stop. The best speeds you will get from a HDD are in linear reading at the outermost areas, but quite honestly even that is pretty damn meh. That's usually where the MB/s readings will come from, and they're often merely theoretical rather than measured. More importantly, you will never do that operation (linear reading at the outermost areas) in real life; in practical usage, speeds tank all the time, not only because you're not only operating on fast areas but largely also because of the need to seek, which is a very slow operation (the slowest operation by far). Incidentally, SSDs do not seek; that is not a concept for them. Anyway, to skip to the conclusion on this, don't be taken by MB/s (or MBPS) numbers; they're largely a marketing maneuver without practical meaning.

The one thing that can make all that better is faster rotation speeds. Generally speaking, all speeds (including read/write and seek) will depend on rotation speeds. In the old days, you could find drives with much faster rotations (10000 RPM and more), but they died down as drives got denser, because it's a tradeoff; you need to make the drives run slower to fit more data. Today, you can find large 7200 RPM drives, and they will be faster, but also more expensive. If you are looking at affordable drives, you're unlikely to want to spend the 7200 RPM premium; that leaves 5400 RPM as the only choice.

Now, to check your options...

At a glance, the 130 MB/s measure, however nonsensical it might be in practice, seems to imply that that Black is 5400 RPM, so both drives should be about the same speed, more or less. Blacks are historically good drives, but those things change, so somebody else who has more up to date information might correct me on this. They tend to be fairly durable, unlike modern Blues, which tend to die very fast thanks to some "features" that are not designed for long drive life, and durability is very important when it comes to where your data is. Of course, durable drives are not a good reason to not backup, but at least more durable drives are less likely to die tomorrow. So, unless someone else corrects me on their durability, I'd say Blacks are good drives. As for your other option, I've never heard of Transcend before; I'm a bit out of the loop, so maybe they're good and I just haven't heard, but personally I'm not willing to trust an unknown brand when it comes to storage. Again, if someone else says otherwise, maybe it's just that I've not been checking. And if they're at the same price point, the extra space is also a point in favor of the WD Black.

That said, check that neither drive is refurbished. Refurbished hardware is hardware that had issues, but was fixed and is being resold. It's not new and it has a history of problems. Refurbished does not mean bad, and it's often as good as new, but I would think twice before buying refurbished for storage, specifically, because of the extra risk.

I'd get the Western digital, you have a lot of games. Like games buying HDD on sale is almost a must as well imo.

Load time does not matter much for me unless it is a PVP scenario, where for example porting/spawning is important to do almost instantly. In this case you hopefully can put a few multiplayer games you play all the time on an SSD.

I dunno much about Transcend stuff, but WD HDDs are great. I swear I have 2 WD Blues of 500GB, they have been working for 10 years now, 24/7, and they still have the same speed as the day I bought them, not to mention reliability, and I still use them for active gaming for the games that aren`t too much dependent of SSD.

So I would suggest go with WD Black.

Option one, I use a WD Black for exactly what you want to use it for.

WD, i have used 5-6 for years now, no problems with them

Why have you limited yourself to an external drive?

If internal is available I would recommend a WD Red, the Red Pro is better than the Red Plus but if it is still within your budget get the Pro, more reliable and will likely last longer.

You didnt write the series ,but the WD black is kinda more optimized for gaming and grahic designing if i remember right.
on the side note i think all WD blacks nowadays have 7200RPM and are much faster than the other one with 5400.On top of that the wd black has more space.
Aslong the HDD holds long enough if they are in the same price range ,there is no reason why you shouldnt go for black .

if your buying hdd, always go for a 7200rpm hdd.. 5400rpm is slow and 7200rpm does not feel slow..

trust me i know coz i currently have a 2tb wd black, 2tb seagate firecuda, and 16tb seagate exos.... and all are 7200rpm hdd's...

if affordability is your main concern i highly recommend the firecuda(unfortunately its only 2tb max) and i've gotten it on sale for $60...

Go for a WD Black with 7200rpm and you are set

Avoid buying SMR HDD but only CMR HDD!
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