Type of Hard-Drive?

[Schmarvin]

Currently, I'm looking to see what's an inbetween quality for a hard-drive.

I've used black drives, blue drives, and green drives. I sell red drives for my clients' servers for storage.

 

I'd like to know your opinions on which drives I should be following for the following types of situations:

• Permanent/Archived storage for my local server
• Personal computer (used for video editing, business functions, and gaming)

Those two situations are my primary uses. I would like more information on what others use and which I should be using for optimal performance.

 

**NOTE:  I only use Western Digital, not just because of preference, but because I'm a re-seller for them as well via my business so I get a nice discount. It's not because I don't like Seagate or other brands.

[Jobbe03]

• Red

 

• Black or Blue   (Ssd if you don't have one aswell)

[antoainb]

If the server drives are not active greens or blues are good, since they're the cheapest and still very reliable, if the server drives are active then reds.

 

For a personal computer, if you want the best performance go for blacks, cheap storage blues and for silence and low power consumption greens.

[ShadowCaptain]

 

 

Reds - servers or drives that will be on 24/7

Blues - best drive for installing programs/games to

Greens - best for mass storage on a home pc

blacks - best for entheusiast gamers

 

(although honestly an SSD over blues blacks and greens)

 

Also purples for CCTV

[Schmarvin]

 

• Red

 

• Black or Blue   (Ssd if you don't have one aswell)

 

 

Thank you.

 

If the server drives are not active greens or blues are good, since they're the cheapest and still very reliable, if the server drives are active then reds.

 

For a personal computer, if you want the best performance go for blacks, cheap storage blues and for silence and low power consumption greens.

 

Server drive's are both active and idle. I have 2 swap drives for temp storage and heavy use to throw files around. I also have 2 drives for permanent storage (raid 1) , basically archive drives not used but for long term storage.

 

Reds - servers or drives that will be on 24/7

Blues - best drive for installing programs/games to

Greens - best for mass storage on a home pc

blacks - best for entheusiast gamers

 

(although honestly an SSD over blues blacks and greens)

 

Also purples for CCTV

 

Thank you very much. I use a Samsung 840 Pro SSD (128GB) for my home PC operating system. I have two blue's for storage and gaming, which I guess have worked fine. Never used blacks before due to the high price point.

Don't use greens on my home PC as I don't store most files on it, they are usually saved to my server.

[ShadowCaptain]

Thank you very much. I use a Samsung 840 Pro SSD (128GB) for my home PC operating system. I have two blue's for storage and gaming, which I guess have worked fine. Never used blacks before due to the high price point.

Don't use greens on my home PC as I don't store most files on it, they are usually saved to my server.

 

yeah I am now making every pc in my home SSD based, and plan 4 x 4tb reds in raid 10 for my server... when I can afford them

[antoainb]

Server drive's are both active and idle. I have 2 swap drives for temp storage and heavy use to throw files around. I also have 2 drives for permanent storage (raid 1) , basically archive drives not used but for long term storage.

 

Then Reds will suit you better.

[Schmarvin]

yeah I am now making every pc in my home SSD based, and plan 4 x 4tb reds in raid 10 for my server... when I can afford them

 

Very nice, wish I could afford that, lol.

 

Then Reds will suit you better.

 

Ah, they are a bit more, but I've heard performance and reliability are amazing.

[GloriousPain]

 

• Permanent/Archived storage for my local server
• Personal computer (used for video editing, business functions, and gaming)

Red for servers(they're made for Raid and server usuage)

Blacks otherwise. Blues and Greens are made cheaply to be cheaper drives...