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Hi all and thanks for you help.

My 3tb Seagate has got faulty and I'm looking to replace it with

something that will last a bit longer. (went faulty after 2 years 2 months).

 

I'm looking at a 3tb WD Red or 3TB HGST
Both are NAS/Server drivers with a 3 year warranty.

 

Which one should I get and are there any over HDD I should be looking at?

 

thanks again for your help :)

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I always go for WD after Hitachi and Seagate failing on me so many times in the last 7yrs.

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I guess I am a WD fan boy but they just make the best so get the Reds.

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I was wanting to keep under £100
But the 5 year warranty on the WD Black does look nice.

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I was wanting to keep under £100

But the 5 year warranty on the WD Black does look nice.

For NAS usage especially RAID the Reds are way better

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For NAS usage especially RAID the Reds are way better

It's only going to be in my desktop as my main storage drive

It's will be holding all my personal data.

But the drive is almost always spining while i'm using my computer too.

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Hi all and thanks for you help.

My 3tb Seagate has got faulty and I'm looking to replace it with

something that will last a bit longer. (went faulty after 2 years 2 months).

 

I'm looking at a 3tb WD Red or 3TB HGST

Both are NAS/Server drivers with a 3 year warranty.

 

Which one should I get and are there any over HDD I should be looking at?

 

thanks again for your help :)

 

Hey there GeekThief,
 
NAS drives work pretty much like regular drives when used in a desktop computer so I wouldn't get them. I would recommend going for either WD Black for performance or WD Green for secondary massive storage. Here are links for the two drives:
 
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Hey there GeekThief,

 

NAS drives work pretty much like regular drives when used in a desktop computer so I wouldn't get them. I would recommend going for either WD Black for performance or WD Green for secondary massive storage. Here are links for the two drives:

WD Black: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=Ehixbd

WD Green: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=I3F604

 

Captain_WD.

while you're here anyways, here's what I never got around myself in all systems I've been building and probably will still be building for me and customers and friends:

Why would I get a Green over a Blue? I mean if I choose a performance CPU and GPU there is no need for a low power HDD and since it's getting used standby also is out of the question. So I always recommend SSD as bootdrive, WD Black for other storage, Blues for budget storage and Reds for server grade systems.

For some reason the Greens never make it into any system I build :D so.. did I miss something or are Greens really never better than Blues except for low power systems?

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I currently have a SanDisk 240GB Pro SSD as my OS drive
Then I have a faulty seagate 3tb Barracuda for my data drive (pic's, vid's, doc's, other important info).

And another seagate 3tb Barracuda with nothing but games installed on it.

 

Think I might get a WD Black 3tb drive.
looks to have all the pro's off the other drives with a 5 year warranty.
As it's going to be holding all my data a long warranty and reliability are big selling points to me.

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Basically WD Green is your energy-efficient drive that works cool, quiet and saves a lot of power. It is designed for backups and secondary storage. Its features allow it to be a great choice for quiet backup builds or for archiving. It is mostly chosen for massive media storage (up to 6TB) in builds that have another drive for the OS and active programs and games. 
Such drives are designed for massive storage of files and data that don't really need the faster access time of WD Black but still need larger storage spaces (photos, movies, music, documents, etc.). It's less expensive than WD Black and has more storage space than WD Blue so it would be a great choice for larger secondary storage purposes and backups. 
WD Green has good transfer speeds that can even sustain gaming. It just parks and spins down more frequently than regular drives, uses less power and emits less heat. 
WD Red is a NAS/RAID-class drive designed for such environments. When used in a regular desktop it pretty much works like a WD Green. :)
 
If I had, for example, a huge library of videos (5TB-6TB+) that I took, but don't really need to work on, besides watch them (movies or personal things) I'd go with WD Green instead of WD Black because there wouldn't really be a need for faster performance and it would be more budget-friendly. :)
 
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Basically WD Green is your energy-efficient drive that works cool, quiet and saves a lot of power. It is designed for backups and secondary storage. Its features allow it to be a great choice for quiet backup builds or for archiving. It is mostly chosen for massive media storage (up to 6TB) in builds that have another drive for the OS and active programs and games. 

Such drives are designed for massive storage of files and data that don't really need the faster access time of WD Black but still need larger storage spaces (photos, movies, music, documents, etc.). It's less expensive than WD Black and has more storage space than WD Blue so it would be a great choice for larger secondary storage purposes and backups. 

WD Green has good transfer speeds that can even sustain gaming. It just parks and spins down more frequently than regular drives, uses less power and emits less heat. 

WD Red is a NAS/RAID-class drive designed for such environments. When used in a regular desktop it pretty much works like a WD Green. :)

 

If I had, for example, a huge library of videos (5TB-6TB+) that I took, but don't really need to work on, besides watch them (movies or personal things) I'd go with WD Green instead of WD Black because there wouldn't really be a need for faster performance and it would be more budget-friendly. :)

 

Captain_WD.

OK I get that, also the reason why they are bad for RAID (standby/parking -> RAID controller thinks drive is dead).

but are they really that much more efficient than Blues?

I mean I still have a 500GB Blue and a 500GB Green in my rig and I clearly feel the difference in response and load times (the Green is extremely slow at running VM-disks). And also all the HP Workstations I setup at work have Blues in them even though everything on these systems is "Green IT"-optimized. :)

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It really depends on how much you are using the drive. If you need number examples, you can check the power management numbers of both WD Blue and WD Green and see how the numbers differ:
 
This is a comparison between the 1TB versions:
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western digital Green if you are only using it for storage

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