wd blue as a back up?

[ictdude1]

i am currently using a western digital black hard drive as my main hard drive but i want to know is a western digital blue 1tb (same as my black) would be a good drive to constantly be backing up my black?

also would a western digital green be good for putting my recorded video's on?

[looney]

Define "constantly backing up" please?

If you mean RAID 1 then I would not recommend it, just get a second black in that case.

It would work but it wont be optimal.

If you mean a sync of the files ever so often then it should be fine.

Green is perfect for simple media storage (videos / photo's)

[rustikles]

i am currently using a western digital black hard drive as my main hard drive but i want to know is a western digital blue 1tb (same as my black) would be a good drive to constantly be backing up my black?

also would a western digital green be good for putting my recorded video's on?

Honestly, there's only so much you can do to "specialize" a hard drive. All of those are going to be fine for whatever you want to put on them. 

[CoolBeans]

It should be fine.

[Bluejay0]

he means raid 1. yes it should work

[KaareKanin]

I might be mistaken, but back ups aren't something you should do constantly. It should be done in increments and with each back up as a separate thing (in other words: don't over write back up #1 with back up #2). A back up should also be removed from the system while not backing up. But like I said, I might be mistaken

[DenVu]

should be fine i usse a blue as my primary but i dont store pictures or whatever (if my drive were to fail, I wouldnt give a shit about all my files being gone )

[looney]

I might be mistaken, but back ups aren't something you should do constantly. It should be done in increments and with each back up as a separate thing (in other words: don't over write back up #1 with back up #2). A back up should also be removed from the system while not backing up. But like I said, I might be mistaken

You are not mistaken, Hence my initial question, Define "constantly backing up".

[Bluejay0]

I have a barracuda and a wd blue in raid 1 soon. I did a test and the work splendidly

[ictdude1]

You are not mistaken, Hence my initial question, Define "constantly backing up".

once a day files backed up

[looney]

once a day files backed up

Blue is fine in that case.

and so is the green for data :P

[ictdude1]

Blue is fine in that case.

and so is the green for data :P

Cheers then i am left with my old seagate 250gb hard drive as a spare lol