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PSA: 1TB Western Digital Blacks May be Re-binned Blues

Qub3d
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WD Community Disscussion (Important Post Highlighted)

 

Also several more recent Amazon reviews are noting a decrease in performance and an increase in # of bad sectors out of the box.

 

I'd be wary. This may be a whole lot of nothing, but better safe than sorry.

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My blue is dying, but my seagate drives have never failed...  :wacko:

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I had a ton of reds die. I've been growing to hate wd.

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Someone remind me, is the difference between the colors (black, blue, green, red) is speed, anything else?

black - performace

blue - a mix performance and efficiency

green - powersaving / efficiency

red - made to handle vibrations for use in NASs

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Someone remind me, is the difference between the colors (black, blue, green, red) is speed, anything else?

 

 

black - performace

blue - a mix performance and efficiency

green - powersaving / efficiency

red - made to handle vibrations for use in NASs

 

 

Warranty as well.

 

Blacks = 5 year

Red/Purple = 3 year

Blue/Green = 2 year

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Warranty as well.

 

Blacks = 5 year

Red/Purple = 3 year

Blue/Green = 2 year

Yes. That is still carried over, even if the drive is just a relabel.

F#$k timezone programming. Use UTC! (See XKCD #1883)

PC Specs:

Ryzen 5900x, MSI 3070Ti, 2 x 1 TiB SSDs, 32 GB 3400 DDR4, Cooler Master NR200P

 

 

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