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So lets say you're buying an SSD for your system and you're putting all your major programs on there and some games possibly, and you're an editor/person who renders all kinds of files a lot.

 

Would you take the WD Green (as it IS A LOT cheaper)? Or would you always shoot for the WD Black immediately? 

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So lets say you're buying an SSD for your system and you're putting all your major programs on there and some games possibly, and you're an editor/person who renders all kinds of files a lot.

 

Would you take the WD Green (as it IS A LOT cheaper)? Or would you always shoot for the WD Black immediately? 

I would go with a $99 3 TB Seagate 7200 RPM drive that is on sale right now.

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I would go with a $99 3 TB Seagate 7200 RPM drive that is on sale right now.

Not to be a jerk, but you seriously didn't answer my question. I personally simply don't trust Seagate as much as WD, and also yeah it's on sale now, but what about on a regular basis when it's not?

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Not to be a jerk, but you seriously didn't answer my question. I personally simply don't trust Seagate as much as WD, and also yeah it's on sale now, but what about on a regular basis when it's not?

I got the WD Black 2TB because for some reason WD doesn't want to sell the Blue in 2+TB...


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I used to have 2 wd green 1tb drives to store all of my files, and honestly it's a great drive. it's power efficient, quiet, and does the job.

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I got the WD Black 2TB because for some reason WD doesn't want to sell the Blue in 2+TB...

Yeah, like that's my biggest "WTF" is I don't understand why there isn't at LEAST a 2TB model of the WD Blue. 

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So lets say you're buying an SSD for your system and you're putting all your major programs on there and some games possibly, and you're an editor/person who renders all kinds of files a lot.

 

Would you take the WD Green (as it IS A LOT cheaper)? Or would you always shoot for the WD Black immediately? 

The entire idea behind greens, is for mass storage, with less noise. They spin at 5400 RPM instead of 7200 RPM, so they're slower, but the entire idea of them is for what you suggested.

 

As a photographer, I would use greens in a heart beat for a Raid 1 solution. With lots of drives, comes lots of sound, and his helps remove some of that noise.

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So lets say you're buying an SSD for your system and you're putting all your major programs on there and some games possibly, and you're an editor/person who renders all kinds of files a lot.

 

Would you take the WD Green (as it IS A LOT cheaper)? Or would you always shoot for the WD Black immediately? 

 

I would go for the Blue actually. If not WD then Hitachi. 

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I used to have 2 wd green 1tb drives to store all of my files, and honestly it's a great drive. it's power efficient, quiet, and does the job.

There's just a couple of complaints about the drive that I see sometimes, is the reduced speed seriously that bad? 

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I would go for the Blue actually. If not WD then Hitachi. 

Blue's don't come in higher than 1TB. :( 

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Yeah, like that's my biggest "WTF" is I don't understand why there isn't at LEAST a 2TB model of the WD Blue. 

It's probably so WD can make us pay more for the Black...


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There's just a couple of complaints about the drive that I see sometimes, is the reduced speed seriously that bad? 

No, file transfers are a little slower, but it's not TERRIBLY slow. It's okay in speed compared to other drives

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It's probably so WD can make us pay more for the Black...

You know, considering people sometimes do seriously worry about PC speed and may not like the idea of their drive running under standard 7200RPM speeds. 

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No, file transfers are a little slower, but it's not TERRIBLY slow. It's okay in speed compared to other drives

Do you know how it compares to the WD Blue? 

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Do you know how it compares to the WD Blue? 

Compared to the wd blue I have right now, the green is about 1/4th slower

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Compared to the wd blue I have right now, the green is about 1/4th slower

Hmm...but should I just buy two WD Blues then? 

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Greens are very good from what I've seen and heard. I'm currently running two of them in RAID 1 in our NAS. No problems at all.

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Not to be a jerk, but you seriously didn't answer my question. I personally simply don't trust Seagate as much as WD, and also yeah it's on sale now, but what about on a regular basis when it's not?

I did answer your question.  Get the Seagate instead of the Western Digital.  Simple as that.

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@MeesterJackson It would depend on what I was doing with it.

 

I currently have a WD Green as my boot drive (pre-built PC), and it's doing fine. I wouldn't recommend it for that use, though.

 

If I was buying a drive for media storage, then the WD Green is a good option (though Seagate's drives are slightly cheaper in similar capacities, so I would probably go with that). Other than that I wouldn't recommend them.

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So lets say you're buying an SSD for your system and you're putting all your major programs on there and some games possibly, and you're an editor/person who renders all kinds of files a lot.

 

Would you take the WD Green (as it IS A LOT cheaper)? Or would you always shoot for the WD Black immediately? 

I have a 1 TB Green in my drawer, waiting to be put into my upcoming PC.

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I've had 2 blacks fail within 2 years, and have had trouble free operation from 3 greens for nearly 4 years in my HTPC.

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I have three WD 2TB greens, swapping them our for two WD 4TB blacks - actually copying my files over as I type. So I don't know how much better the blacks will be, but moving from 1TB seagate barracudas, the greens are the slowest drives I've ever used. I won't be buying them again,now before all the haters start, they are very quiet and great for what they are designed for. However, I work with large photo files and video files, I find the greens slow to start up when I open them - I end up watching the progress bar at the top file explorer move slowly along a lot.

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No. I would never recommend them. I would take Seagate over WD any day. They're cheaper, have longer warranties, and are quieter.

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I used 1tb WD as a main drive for my pc. It failed just after 6 months

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Don't buy a green drive of any manufacture, they are a waste of tech, buy a 7200 rpm drive. I mean if you want to wait for everything (more than normal) sure buy a green but if you hate to wait stick to 7200rpm drives at the very minimum. Green's are fine if you like to go low tech and be all hipster, otherwise you end up trolling yourself, sure they work but so does a floppy disk or DVD drive. If you are super energy conscious set your full green power setting on your OS to power off the drive (a 7200 rpm drive or greater) instead.

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