Western digital blue

[saders]

Are the western digital blue hard drives any good cause my current hard drive is starting to make alot of nice and ticking sounds so i think its on its last leg. Was looking at the wd blue 1tb drive as i can not afford a SSD or a black hd

[Guest]

There fine I'm running a few

[s3ns3]

yeah they are fine

[Osmium]

Good but not great. They are kind of middle of the road drives. Not the fastest or quietest however they are more quieter than blacks and faster than greens. Kind of a jack of all trades sort of thing.

[Frosty]

I have the 500GB model and it's been running admirably for the past 3 years.

[saders]

There fine I'm running a few

 

Good but not great. They are kind of middle of the road drives. Not the fastest or quietest however they are more quieter than blacks and faster than greens. Kind of a jack of all trades sort of thing.

 

I have the 500GB model and it's been running admirably for the past 3 years.

 

yeah they are fine

 

There fine I'm running a few

http://boomitretail.ca/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=5051&category_id=111&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=26

This is the one i am looking at cheapest i can get it, From nicx will cost over 100 bucks with taxs and shiping. Local store will only cost 96 canadian

[Frosty]

http://boomitretail.ca/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=5051&category_id=111&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=26

This is the one i am looking at cheapest i can get it, From nicx will cost over 100 bucks with taxs and shiping. Local store will only cost 96 canadian

It's 69.99 on Newegg.ca with 8 dollar shipping.

[Poohy14]

there are 2 different models, one with 64 MB of cache and the other is 32 MB of cache. get the 64 MB due to the fact that it will access files faster. I am running 3 of the 1 TB blue drives and they are great and love them. Bought all of mine for $55 USD a piece

[flibberdipper]

They are loud as hell (in my experience). Save your ears and get a Seagate Barracuda.

[saders]

there are 2 different models, one with 64 MB of cache and the other is 32 MB of cache. get the 64 MB due to the fact that it will access files faster. I am running 3 of the 1 TB blue drives and they are great and love them. Bought all of mine for $55 USD a piece

Just to make sure this hard drive can be used on Sata 2 no problem yea?

[flibberdipper]

Just to make sure this hard drive can be used on Sata 2 no problem yea?

It will run at SATA 2 speeds, but yes.

[atrash]

Yeah I have one. The 1TB single platter WD10EZEX. It creates this noticeable humming sound when it spins up or spins down to a stop which is quite annoying if your case is on the table beside you. I have it in a Corsair 500R. even the WD Blue 500GB dual platter model is quieter though it runs a bit warmer.

 

The Blue drives are fine tbh. I just don't like the humming sound it creates.

[saders]

Yeah I have one. The 1TB single platter WD10EZEX. It creates this noticeable humming sound when it spins up or spins down to a stop which is quite annoying if your case is on the table beside you. I have it in a Corsair 500R. even the WD Blue 500GB dual platter model is quieter though it runs a bit warmer.

 

The Blue drives are fine tbh. I just don't like the humming sound it creates.

my current drive ticks just idle and alot when scaning the drive

[s3ns3]

It will run at SATA 2 speeds, but yes.

not even close so its fine

[atrash]

saders, on 14 Mar 2014 - 03:01 AM, said:

my current drive ticks just idle and alot when scaning the drive

I don't know whether that drive is actually dieing or not because I have a 7 year old 160GB drive that does that too. It still works though. I'm using it to store non essential files. Just get the new 1TB and use the current one for unimportant stuffs like storing movies or software installers.

[Poohy14]

I never had a problem with my WD blue drive. I personally still have a 140GB Seagate drive that is 10 years old and still running but I dont notice any sound from my blue drive and the only thing that has sound is my crappy fans

[Darkiiss]

What are you doing on your computer? The blues aren't designed for consistent usage, they need to be able to power down every week or so. If you are consistently using your computer, I suggest running reds because they are designed to handle that kind of usability.

[saders]

What are you doing on your computer? The blues aren't designed for consistent usage, they need to be able to power down every week or so. If you are consistently using your computer, I suggest running reds because they are designed to handle that kind of usability.

gaming mostly and i turn my computer off every night

[3VIL_G3NIUS]

I've got one in an old PC, the drive is at least 5 years old and has been run at probably 50c for its life. Although the PC itself died a few weeks ago the drive still works fine. It was the main drive in the computer so it got constant usage. It'll do fine for you