“How many rpms? "High transfer speed" is useless information if isnt atleast 7200 rpms. Is this meant for storage only or can be it be reliably used on a daily basis for running installed programs and games?”
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This unit uses WD Red drives which are 5400rpm. The unit comes striped (RAID 0) so you would get more speed than the rpm implies. I find the read/write speeds acceptable. However, I am using this for external storage in mirrored (RAID 1) mode. For gaming I use SSD. I have an internal 1TB SSD and an external 2TB SSD. 3TB more than meets my gaming needs. RAID drives are designed for always on so a 5400RPM drive is optimal. The drives are user replaceable so you can always put in a faster RAID drive. WD does have the Red Pro line which are 7200RPM.
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