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| 1390710 | 2014-12-22 01:28:00 | OK ... Pretty much what the title says ... which colour are the best? Red, Green or Black. I have a black case and most of the internal wiring is black which means the colour co-ordination would be fabulous !! Red & Black would be good if I was a Canterbury supporter, which I am NOT ... they haven't got any decent players in their team. Green just clashes with everything apart from the Christmas tree but I suppose I could dye the carpet to match the drapes as a last resort. Thank you ever so much people, I look forward to your responses. SP8's |
SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1390711 | 2014-12-22 01:37:00 | Blue is cheap but normal Green is "eco friendly" and parks the heads on the drives to save power and spins down the platters regularly Red is for NAS drives that are "always on" Black is for performance Most people just go "blue". |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1390712 | 2014-12-22 01:39:00 | Green drives are only good for extra data storage, EG photos or music, so don't use one of these if it will be your main system drive. They go to sleep often and don't spin at 7200rpm. Red drives are made for NAS devices that run 24/7. Blue drives are basic 7200RPM drives that are the most common and have a 2 year warranty. Black drives have better performance, with more cache than the blue drives, and also a 5 year warranty. My choice for a computer would be a black drive, or blue if the budget won't allow. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1390713 | 2014-12-22 02:47:00 | Blue or Black for general PC usage. Personally I normally use blues, nothing to do with the price, but mainly because out of all the failures I've seen on WD drives they have been Blacks. Just a got a replacement under warranty for a black that was less than 1 year old, (direct from Western Digital) Heres a list of what WD have - including the purple ( SWMBO would get that, simply because she likes purple LOL) www.wdc.com |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1390714 | 2014-12-22 03:52:00 | Just replaced SWMBO's old noisy drive with a blue quiet as now | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1390715 | 2014-12-22 18:07:00 | I have a black case and most of the internal wiring is black which means the colour co-ordination would be fabulous !! The colour is not the actual drives case colour. It refers to mainly warranty. The drive itself will be silver..... Yep, I know what you mean about colour coordination - I just got a green backlit keyboard so it matches the LED fabs in the case. LOL. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1390716 | 2014-12-23 03:09:00 | Yep, I know what you mean about colour coordination - I just got a green backlit keyboard so it matches the LED fabs in the case. LOL. Cool! Got pix? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1390717 | 2014-12-23 08:12:00 | The colour is not the actual drives case colour... Unless he means My Passports In that case Red is far superior to Black because you can write on it with a felt pen (My non-professional take on 3.5" WD drives is that prior to SSDs Black or Blue was preferred due to responsiveness or reliability. But now that people put the OS on an SSD, Green might be preferable due to quietness??) |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1390718 | 2014-12-23 19:22:00 | Unless he means My Passports (My non-professional take on 3 . 5" WD drives is that prior to SSDs Black or Blue was preferred due to responsiveness or reliability . True . Enclosure colour . Preferred, I would say they were cheaper (green for instance) and the warranty longer on say, black . Whether the OS is on another drive, I'd still prefer reliable . . . . . . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1390719 | 2014-12-23 19:23:00 | Pics of KB - I'll post if that desk pics thread is going to come up again..... | pctek (84) | ||
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