im making a gaming pc. is there a big difference from wd green to wd black when it comes to performance?
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Yes green drives are only 5200 RPM much slower than 7200 just to save 10 watts of power. The WD black drive is the highest performing mechanical drive there is.
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I use this 4TB HDD for storage only. For gaming where you won't be using it so much for storage, I'd use a smaller HDD storage size (250gb or less) as it will track much faster and cut down on the latency time. Better yet for hard core gaming I suggest a solid state drive (over a mechanical HDD) instead. I use a 250 gb Sandisk HDD for my operating system and use the Western Digital 4TB as a second drive to store my files on.
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Just make sure that you aren't going to use it as master boot, windows won't use more then to 2tb and the other 2tb are unusable. As far as Green vs Black WD Black These high-performance SATA drives combine 7200 RPM spin speed, up to 64 MB cache, SATA 3 Gb/s interface, and an integrated dual processor for lightning-fast performance in demanding desktop, workstation, and multi-drive systems. WD Green These drives make it possible for energyconscious customers to build systems with higher capacitiesand the right balance of system performance,ensured reliability, and energy conservation.
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Just make sure that you aren't going to use it as master boot, windows won't use more then to 2tb and the other 2tb are unusable. As far as Green vs Black WD Black™These high-performance SATA drives combine 7200 RPM spin speed, up to 64 MB cache, SATA 3 Gb/s interface, and an integrated dual processor for lightning-fast performance in demanding desktop, workstation, and multi-drive systems. WD GreenThese drives make it possible for energyconscious customers to build systems withhigher capacitiesand the right balance of system performance,ensured reliability, and energy conservation. Just make sure that you aren't going to use it as master boot, windows won't use more then to 2tb and the other 2tb are unusable. As far as Green vs Black WD Black™These high-performance SATA drives combine 7200 RPM spin speed, up to 64 MB cache, SATA 3 Gb/s interface, and an integrated dual processor for lightning-fast performance in demanding desktop, workstation, and multi-drive systems. WD GreenThese drives make it possible for energyconscious customers to build systems withhigher capacitiesand the right balance of system performance,ensured reliability, and energy... » Read More Just make sure that you aren't going to use it as master boot, windows won't use more then to 2tb and the other 2tb are unusable. As far as Green vs Black WD Black™These high-performance SATA drives combine 7200 RPM spin speed, up to 64 MB cache, SATA 3 Gb/s interface, and an integrated dual processor for lightning-fast performance in demanding desktop, workstation, and multi-drive systems. WD GreenThese drives make it possible for energyconscious customers to build systems withhigher capacitiesand the right balance of system performance,ensured reliability, and energy conservation. « Show Less
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WD Black is much higher performance and you can use it for the boot drive and have all 4 Terabytes show up unless your computer and your operating system are still in the stone age. However if your OS is 64 bit, then your computer is going to see all 4. The WD Blacks are all I've used for years and this newest one is the BEST and FASTEST OF ALL THE Wd's on the market today. You can use it for any purpose and you'll get the best performance over any others.
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It depends on performance you want. (Eg. concurrent users accessing files on the disk). For home usage, the green is always fine.
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Not sure about color but you want the fastest RPM's 7200 or more drive possible for large file transfers. If you have lots of files you may want ot consider high storage deives that offer up to 5-6 TB per device. I have two of these 3TB drives in by NAS in a raid 1 configure and sore lots of multi media files about 50GB of video movies
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Western Digital Green. But if you are planning on running applications or an OS in it, than Western Digital Black would be better.
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WD Black drive are high performance consumer drives. They're designed for things like desktop PCs. WD Red drives are constructed with NAS and home/small business servers in mind. WD Red drives are built with things like more vibration resistance, lower operating temperatures, and a longer warranty. This in turn gives them more reliability in an "always on" situation where they would be subject to constant use. The enhanced vibration resistance also gives them more stability when used with multiple other HDDs as they would be subject to more vibration this way. If you plan on having your home server with multiple drives in a RAID config and keeping it on at all times to access then I would recommend WD Reds. WD Black drive are high performance consumer drives. They're designed for things like desktop PCs. WD Red drives are constructed with NAS and home/small business servers in mind. WD Red drives are built with things like more vibration resistance, lower operating temperatures, and a longer warranty. This in turn gives them more reliability in an "always on" situation where they would be subject to constant use. The enhanced vibration resistance also gives them more stability when used with multiple other HDDs as they would be subject to more vibration this way. If you plan on... » Read More WD Black drive are high performance consumer drives. They're designed for things like desktop PCs. WD Red drives are constructed with NAS and home/small business servers in mind. WD Red drives are built with things like more vibration resistance, lower operating temperatures, and a longer warranty. This in turn gives them more reliability in an "always on" situation where they would be subject to constant use. The enhanced vibration resistance also gives them more stability when used with multiple other HDDs as they would be subject to more vibration this way. If you plan on having your home server with multiple drives in a RAID config and keeping it on at all times to access then I would recommend WD Reds. « Show Less
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The 5400rpm Best Buy's (NP700Z5B-W01UB) model HDD was a deal breaker for me. Besides Amazon's tax savings offset the price difference, so you get all 4 additional features (7200 HDD, 8G SSD, backlit keyboard, better video) for about $100 considering shipping and the current $150-$200 price difference. However the mention of the 5400rpm drive in S03 (and I'm sure S04) models made me think again. It's gotta be some difference with S01/S02 and the drive seems to be it. Another thing that one reviewer (of the S04) confirmed is that the 8G SSD is indeed proprietary tech (built into and inseparable from the HDD) and thus unavailable as a separate drive letter. I use Linux as my primary OS, so I don't care about Windows startup or IE speed. I don't think Linux would pick up the SSD at all. Which makes me go back to the stripped down Best Buy model. I'd simply swap its slow HDD with a full-size (256G+) SSD which can be had for $300 nowadays. I can live w/o the backlit keyboard and as far as the less capable video card, it's a business notebook, not a water-cooled gaming rig anyway.
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I believe the difference are the fans. This card works well in my setup. I would recommend buying it.
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Yes, it's the same. No idea why they did it, but they decided to go with colors instead of fish eggs. :-DSorry to hear about your failure. As I comment elsewhere here, it's particularly unusual. I've had about a dozen different WD Blacks in the last 13 years, never ever had one fail, even after about 9 years of use. Every one that I've retired was retired because it became inadequate capacity (LOL: 200gigs) rather than because of failing functionality.
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I've got an older 20" iMac (2009?) with the black back. It runs pretty hot and loud, but seems to be fine. I've recently replaced the 1TB WD black with the 2TB variant and it's been running fine for at least six months. If I could do it over, I'd buy a fast, quiet SSD and use external drives for data. Of course, that's going to cost a lot more.
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The NAS drives are more a hardware difference than software. Sure they may offer some enterprise features like secure erase in hardware, etc. but the real difference is the hardware. These drives are designed to better dampen internal generated and externally received vibrations. This design is due to the close proximity of the drives and the 24/7 operation. Check the specs and these drive typically rank between desktop and enterprise drives in terms of MTBF. They may have longer warranties as well. All-in-all it simply boils down to how much do you love your data? What is being stored on the NAS. Is it precious? I ran a DroboFS for two years with WD green drives. I replaced them with these drives thinking this was a better choice for my circumstances. The choice is ultimately yours.
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Possibly - depending on several factors. Data size would be one. The other factor would be what NAS you have and what the data rate (throughput) is. Most manufacturers don't publish this beyond interface speed, but you may be able to find benchmarks on the web.I replaced 2 WD Green drives with three of these and added a mSATA accelerator to my Drobo 5N and it was a marked improvement. In this case the mSATA was likely most responsible for the boost.Short answer - the Green drives are 5400 variable speed while this drive is 5900. I doubt you would see any detriment over a 7200 drive in general use. Possibly - depending on several factors. Data size would be one. The other factor would be what NAS you have and what the data rate (throughput) is. Most manufacturers don't publish this beyond interface speed, but you may be able to find benchmarks on the web.I replaced 2 WD Green drives with three of these and added a mSATA accelerator to my Drobo 5N and it was a marked improvement. In this case the mSATA was likely most responsible for the boost.Short answer - the Green drives are 5400 variable speed while this drive is 5900. I doubt you would see any detriment over a... » Read More Possibly - depending on several factors. Data size would be one. The other factor would be what NAS you have and what the data rate (throughput) is. Most manufacturers don't publish this beyond interface speed, but you may be able to find benchmarks on the web.I replaced 2 WD Green drives with three of these and added a mSATA accelerator to my Drobo 5N and it was a marked improvement. In this case the mSATA was likely most responsible for the boost.Short answer - the Green drives are 5400 variable speed while this drive is 5900. I doubt you would see any detriment over a 7200 drive in general use. « Show Less
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Here's a quick power comparison. You have to consider that the Black2 is literally two drives. The drives used in this comparison were: the 1tb Black2, a 750gb 720 RPM Black 2.5" mobile, a 1tb, 5400 rpm Blue 2.5" mobile, and 1 1.5tb 5400 rpm green 2.5" mobile hard drive. I did not include 3.5' desktop drives, only notebook drives. For those who do not know the differences, the Black is performance, the blue is "standard" and the green is efficient (and the least expensive.. It's tech.. you get what you pay for...) The 1TB Seagate "Hybrid" (SSD-Like called SSHD) Hybrid Drive lists its power consumption as: 1TB Seagate SSHD: Seek - 2.7 watts and idle - 0.90 watts, both higher power consumption than the WD competition, significantly more during active use by almost a full watt. (Nothing against Seagate. They make a fine hard drive. This is only a comparison) A Kingston KC300 wish is the more power efficient SSD model's power consumption is as follows: Read: 1.73 Watts, Write 2.49 watts and idle: 0.08 watts. For the WD / Western Digital Notebook Drives, the power consumption is as follows: (I hope this helps!) Read-Write Black2 - 1.80 watts Read Write Black - 1.75 watts Read Write Blue - 1.70 watts Read Write Green - 1.70 Idle Black2 - 0.90 watts Idle Black - 0.80 watts Idle Blue - 0.90 watts Idle Green - 0.80 watts Standby Black2 - 0.90 watts Standby Black - 0.20 watts Standby Blue - 0.18 watts Standby Green - 0.20 watts Sleep Black2 - 0.90 watts Sleep Black - 0.20 watts Sleep Blue - 0.18 watts Sleep Green - 0.20 watts
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I am using the WD 4TB green (lower power than red) and it works fine.WD40EZRX Western Digital 4TB Internal Hard Drive IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb
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for my use case it works faster that WD. I transfer files over LAN. Wifi will be slow.
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Absolutely. there are always SOME weird motherboards and some NAS's that don't like certain HDD's, so it isn't guaranteed, but it's a real nice, solid, good working drive. Read some reviews on it. In RAID 0, by the way, you can make up for the 5400 RPM and make these things scream and still have the low heat, low power consumption.
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Seagate vs WD. I've used them both over the years, along with Maxtor. For myself and some people Seagate=good and WD=bad, and for others, just the opposite. What's interesting in these comments is that the usage habits are not known, i.e., how intensely is the hard drive being accessed (applications, pro versus consumer, etc), and, in what environment is the hard drive being used (air quality, room temperature, humidity, appropriate case cooling, physical vibration, etc.). Those are the useful comparatives that would help in these reviews. Otherwise, it's just comparing one's FOTD (flavor of the day). Seagate vs WD. I've used them both over the years, along with Maxtor. For myself and some people Seagate=good and WD=bad, and for others, just the opposite. What's interesting in these comments is that the usage habits are not known, i.e., how intensely is the hard drive being accessed (applications, pro versus consumer, etc), and, in what environment is the hard drive being used (air quality, room temperature, humidity, appropriate case cooling, physical vibration, etc.). Those are the useful comparatives that would help in these reviews. Otherwise, it's just comparing one's FOTD (flavor... » Read More Seagate vs WD. I've used them both over the years, along with Maxtor. For myself and some people Seagate=good and WD=bad, and for others, just the opposite. What's interesting in these comments is that the usage habits are not known, i.e., how intensely is the hard drive being accessed (applications, pro versus consumer, etc), and, in what environment is the hard drive being used (air quality, room temperature, humidity, appropriate case cooling, physical vibration, etc.). Those are the useful comparatives that would help in these reviews. Otherwise, it's just comparing one's FOTD (flavor of the day). « Show Less
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In general , I prefer WD over Seagate. Personally, I have had more Seagate failures . The price is also very fair for the WD blue.