WD HDD - Black or Green?

[ScarisRacer]

For my new PC build, I'll be going for the classic gamer storage solution. An SSD for the OS, key applications, drivers and utilities. And a mass-storage drive for music, photos, videos, documents and of course, games. And reckon 3TB should be ample for me.

 

So, I had a look at some WD hard drives. But I was wondering, would a Green drive be OK for this type of build? Or is it worth paying more for the Black drive?

 

Here's some prices I found from Scan:

 

WD Black 3TB - £125.16

WD Green 3TB - £84.36 (saving just over £40)

[minibois]

For my new PC build, I'll be going for the classic gamer storage solution. An SSD for the OS, key applications, drivers and utilities. And a mass-storage drive for music, photos, videos, documents and of course, games. And reckon 3TB should be ample for me.

 

So, I had a look at some WD hard drives. But I was wondering, would a Green drive be OK for this type of build? Or is it worth paying more for the Black drive?

 

Here's some prices I found from Scan:

 

WD Black 3TB - £125.16

WD Green 3TB - £84.36 (saving just over £40)

Green is fine if it is not your boot drive (or doesn't have games on it or documents you want to quickly move over to your SSD for example).

Greens are generally seen as slower drives.

[Lotus]

For 3TB mass storage drives, I much prefer Seagate's Barracuda over any of WD's offerings. Same cost as the Green but performance closer to that of a black, and reliability to boot.

[toggleguy]

3tb is more than you think, what are you putting on it... 4K uncompressed photos?

[mapegl]

Black is a quick drive but fairly noisy, the green is too slow but very quiet.

For 3TB mass storage drives, I much prefer Seagate's Barracuda over any of WD's offerings. Same cost as the Green but performance closer to that of a black, and reliability to boot.

That's what I would do, too!

[ScarisRacer]

For 3TB mass storage drives, I much prefer Seagate's Barracuda over any of WD's offerings. Same cost as the Green but performance closer to that of a black, and reliability to boot.

Hmm...only a 2 year warranty though. Mind you that's the same as the WD Green, but the customer reviews seem better on the WD.

[DimasRMDO]

Black for performance.

Green for power saving.

[ScarisRacer]

Green is fine if it is not your boot drive (or doesn't have games on it or documents you want to quickly move over to your SSD for example).

Greens are generally seen as slower drives.

 

Black for performance.

Green for power saving.

As I said, I've got an SSD for a boot drive and other key stuff. But would a Green drive be OK for games or do I buy a Black drive? Sorry if it sounds like I'm repeating myself, I am rather tired. Need sleep

[Lotus]

As I said, I've got an SSD for a boot drive and other key stuff. But would a Green drive be OK for games or do I buy a Black drive? Sorry if it sounds like I'm repeating myself, I am rather tired. Need sleep

Seagate Barracuda. Get both cost savings and performance. Regular users don't care about power savings from a WD Green drive.

[Mighty_Miro_WD]

Hi there @ScarisRacer!

 

For gaming I would recommend the Black drive because it has build-in features like dynamic cache (which optimizes the cache allocation) and no touch ramp technology (the recording head never touches the disk) that will give you faster loading times in gaming. As for the Green drive, it is designed for secondary storage purposes - for backup, movies, music, pics etc.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Cheers!

[DimasRMDO]

As I said, I've got an SSD for a boot drive and other key stuff. But would a Green drive be OK for games or do I buy a Black drive? Sorry if it sounds like I'm repeating myself, I am rather tired. Need sleep

It's okay, but black would be better.

[IceCold007]

I have my SSD for the OS and games and 2x 2TB WD Green for Storage of my pictures movies etc. The WD greens are great but if your playing games then get the Blacks but I don't see the point why you would do this, put the games on the SSD drive unless its a low storage SSD.

 

Ive had my 840 Pro for nearly two years now and playing games on them is a joy rather than loading them form a normal HDD.

[DimasRMDO]

I have my SSD for the OS and games and 2x 2TB WD Green for Storage of my pictures movies etc. The WD greens are great but if your playing games then get the Blacks but I don't see the point why you would do this, put the games on the SSD drive unless its a low storage SSD.

 

Ive had my 840 Pro for nearly two years now and playing games on them is a joy rather than loading them form a normal HDD.

Using SSD for games would be much better than HDD.

[Dabombinable]

Your forgetting the WD Blue, it performs pretty much the safe as a WD Black, if not better, and is designed as an every day HDD. It can also be used as a boot drive without any issues unlike a green.

[DimasRMDO]

Your forgetting the WD Blue, it performs pretty much the safe as a WD Black, if not better, and is designed as an every day HDD. It can also be used as a boot drive without any issues unlike a green.

Yeah, WD Blue is nice, it has balance between performance and power usage.

[Dabombinable]

Yeah, WD Blue is nice, it has balance between performance and power usage.

And if I remember correctly, Linus had one performing faster than a WD Black-which makes a WD black near pointless.

[Lotus]

WD Blues are not available in higher capacities unfortunately.

[dustySoda]

WD Blues are not acailable in higher capacities unfortunately.

True. Highest is 1TB.

 

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/desktop/

[Wind1000100]

Ok, I have experience with a WD Green drive. Please listen:

 

Worst decision ever. 1 and a half minutes to boot to desktop and then 2-3 minutes before it's usable without crashing. Super slow overall, bottlenecks my PC majorly. Screws up good hardware.

DON'T use a WD Green for OS and stuff, get WD Blue or Black!

[Wind1000100]

As I said, I've got an SSD for a boot drive and other key stuff. But would a Green drive be OK for games or do I buy a Black drive? Sorry if it sounds like I'm repeating myself, I am rather tired. Need sleep

BLACK for games, I reckon.