Why would you not disclose the rotational speed of the disk?!? How fast does it spin - 5400 or 7200 rpm?!? null

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Frequentraveler · Accepted Answer

It's a 5400 RPM drive. My use of a NAS is primarily archival, so I'm more interested in reliability rather than speed.

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5400 RPM

hype8912 · Answer

Rotational speed is 5400 rpm. It's listed under the "Show Full Specs" section.

JeffR · Answer

The Plus is 5400 rpm and the Pro is 7200 rpm

JohnWizzer · Answer

That does not interest me, performance is why I purchased it.

DanielM · Answer

These are 5400, good for a NAS, but not great for a desktop. They don't come in 7k, 10k or 15k unfortunately. Most mechanical "NAS" drives use this speed to save overall power since there are usually many of these drives per unit.

Answered by DanielM 2 years ago

Verified Purchase

user563932 · Answer

5400
Read and Writes: 180 MB/s

JohnS · Answer

This 4TB drive is 5400RPM, the slight larger drives are 5700 and I know the 12TB is 7200RPM

All the Red Pro drives are 7200RPM

Hope that helps

JohnathanFromJersey · Answer

5400rpm, but operates at speeds faster than a 7200rpm drive and I've used WD Caviar Black drivers all of my life.

KevinH · Answer

7200 rpm. The best affordable NAS drive I could find.

14gbNAS · Answer

54k

Brookeville · Answer

In consumer PC use, I can't imagine that the overall read/write speed differences would be significant to the overall performance unless you were constantly downloading/installing HUGE applications and/or documents of 500MB or larger?  (and if the use was for industrial/professional purposes, I can't imagine you'd be buyingfrom Best Buy)

“Why would you not disclose the rotational speed of the disk?!? How fast does it spin - 5400 or 7200 rpm?!?”

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