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18 hours ago, IsaacDaGrazin said:

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Hey there IsaacDaGrazin :)

 

I'm sorry to hear about the troubles with the drive. It's always frustrating when you deal with problems like this. 


Have you tested your drive to determine what's wrong with it? Maybe try plugging it as a secondary drive in an already working system and run some diagnostic tools and check its S.M.A.R.T. status with the raw values? I'd use the manufacturer's tool and see if the drive passes it at all and if it doesn't - what errors are there. Feel free to post it here if you have trouble reading them. 

 

Regarding the Western Digital drives, the guys basically gave you pretty good and correct info.

 

WD Blue is your regular everyday drive that is most commonly used for regular computing, light gaming and workloads and combined with SSD. It is fully capable to run most games as well as many programs for editing or programming. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=zeacBp

 

WD Green is your energy-efficient drive that works cool, quiet and saves a lot of power. It is designed for backups and secondary storage. Its features allow it to be a great choice for quiet backup builds or for archiving. It is mostly chosen for massive media storage (up to 6TB) in builds that have another drive for the OS and active programs and games. WD Green is getting integrated into the WD Blue line. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=xae9bm

 

WD Black is the performance drive in WD's consumer line. It is the fastest among them and has good features such as a built-in dual-core CPU that makes the drive great for multitasking. It is designed for heavy gaming, big workloads and intensive file usage. It has a llong, 5-year limited warranty and its mostly used in gaming computers or editing machines. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=KhpHQD

 

WD Red is the NAS/RAID class drive from the consumer series that is designed specifically for RAID environments and NAS devices. It is tuned and optimized for 24/7 performance, RAID arrays and up to 8-bay NAS systems. This drive is often used for backups, stable secondary storage and in streaming builds, as well as NAS and RAID. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=P1AbZQ

 

WD Red Pro is designed with the same purpose as the regular WD Red, only for larger scales (8 to 16 bays). They have fixed 7,200 rpm (while the regular WD Red has Intellipower), longer warranty and some additional features in the firmware, enabling it to perform even better at larger scale RAID arrays. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=g59F3q

 

WD Purple is your surveillance-class drive, designed specifically for surveillance storage, video recording and streaming. It has optimized noise reduction (being the most quiet drive in the consumer line with only 22dBA nooise level during seeking time), significantly reduced frame loss nad optimized firmware. This drive is also used often for desktop computers due to its low noise levels. It has optimized sequential read/write speeds but the random read/write speeds are lower than normal and some people experience problems with it in regular desktops. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=HNVQiZ

 

WD Purple NV is pretty much the Pro equivalent of the regular WD Purple with the difference that it is designed for NVR systems. Here's more details about it: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=GkT4Hv

 

WD VelociRaptor is a fast workstation drive, spinning at 10,000 rpm. It has limited capacity of 1TB and is mainly used in workstations for editing and content creation. People start to replace it with SSDs but still a lot of users prefer regular HDDs. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=fjS6U1

 

WD Black2 is a dual drive that combines a 120GB SSD with a 1TB HDD in one enclosure in 2.5" form factor. It is designed specifically to improve laptop capacity and performance. It is different from a hybrid SSHD because the SSD part is much bigger (120GB compared to 8GB) and works independently from the HDD (while you cannot control what goes on the SSD part of a SSHD). It is mostly used in laptops with only one drive bay for both speed boost and capacity improvement. It's no longer in production. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=2wCYE3

 

WD AV is a drive that is designed specifically for 24/7 streaming and PVR, DVR and IPTV environments. It is an earlier version of the WD Purple and is still used for constant streaming in TVs, media players, etc. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=2DCo8i

 

WD Blue SSHD is a hybrid drive that is designed for single-bay systems and can provide a great boost in performance for your most used applications by caching their files on the SSD portion. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=dcbLpU

 

In your case I would go for either WD Blue or WD Black, depends on which one fits better your needs and budget. :)

 

Feel free to ask if you need more info on any of this or if I can help with anything else :)

 

Thanks @Stefan1024 for mentioning! 

 

Captain_WD.

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13 hours ago, annoyingmoments said:

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Hey :)

 

Well, I can't really comment on other companies or their products, regardless if they are acquired by WD or not.
From the WD drives I would suggest checking out WD Red for NAS and RAID usage and WD Green and WD AV for regular usage if you are looking for a really quiet drive. 


WD Red drives are NAS/RAID-class drives that have all the required features (such as TLER) in order to work safely and stable in NAS devices and RAID arrays with much lower chances of corrupting the data or dropping out of the arrays. The drives work quite well and with low noise and vibration levels so you should be good with that. Here's a link with more info: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=ZXj6Yn


WD Green and WD AV have one of the lowest noise levels in internal HDDs going as low as 21dBA. Here's some info on them too:


WD AV: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=gCPUyY
WD Green: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=4YSjX3

 

If you give me more details on what you need from your HDD and what you will be using it for I can make some better suggestions :)

 

Captain_WD.

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6 hours ago, Captain_WD said:

If you give me more details on what you need from your HDD and what you will be using it for I can make some better suggestions :)

 

Captain_WD.

What I need for my HDD drive in my personal rig (see my signature), is a very quiet, while decent fast and reliable data HDD. My OS is on a SSD, which  will be changed in the future for a PCIe NVMe SSD. While I am gaming there are no problems as the 3 case fans are louder but not nearly as penetrant like the HDD by the "Door to the water"-company is in idle. Sure my GPU is loud too in idle, but I have taken the GPU out and checked the noise level, a large amount comes from my current HDD. Then I have taken out the HDD and my rig was with fans set to idle (lowest speed), which is fine for browsing the webz or office or blogging and et voilá: The system was quiet like a tablet or smartphone. The rig was not hearable, despite the sound of a nice airflow, which is not annoying at all. The GPU as a noise source is set be replaced with the new GPU generations later this year. It does not sound like it is broken, but more like coil whining and the spinning of the HDD, although there are no programs or data in use on it.

 

I would like to avoid such dilemma and get an ultra silent HDD. 1TB would be enough. By the time I could get another one if necessary.... after I tried the "door to the water"-brand, I would give WD a try.

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CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K GPU: EVGA GTX 1070 SC Gaming ACX 3.0 MB: Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H-BK, RAM: Corsair XMS3 4x4GB RAM, Storage: Samsung Evo 840 SSD@120GB, Samsung Evo 850 SSD@1TB, Intel 535 SSD@240GB PSU: be quiet! Straight Power 10 500W Case: Fractal Design Define R5 Cooling: Cryorig H7, 2xFractal Design GP-14, 1xNoctua NF-A14 FLX OS: Windows 10 Home

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20 hours ago, annoyingmoments said:

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OK, so I would definitely give WD Green a try and try to tweak the power settings of the storage to spin the drive down more often so you don't hear it at all. WD AV is more for streaming video files but can also work. Both drives should have low noise levels and you shouldn't be hearing them. There are noise dampening mountings for the drives which you can try. I'd also check the health of that drive as it's not normal for a HDD to be that loud. 

 

Post back if you need more info or help :)

 

Captain_WD.

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5 hours ago, Captain_WD said:

Post back if you need more info or help :)

 

Captain_WD.

Thank your for your advice, I will take a closer look on the suggested drives and will check my current HDD. I guess if it is damaged, it is due the packaging back in Dec ´14, when it arrived. The well known online shop here just threw it with some buuble wrap in a big package, and we all know logistics are more for time than careful transport.....

SilentOcean

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K GPU: EVGA GTX 1070 SC Gaming ACX 3.0 MB: Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H-BK, RAM: Corsair XMS3 4x4GB RAM, Storage: Samsung Evo 840 SSD@120GB, Samsung Evo 850 SSD@1TB, Intel 535 SSD@240GB PSU: be quiet! Straight Power 10 500W Case: Fractal Design Define R5 Cooling: Cryorig H7, 2xFractal Design GP-14, 1xNoctua NF-A14 FLX OS: Windows 10 Home

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15 hours ago, annoyingmoments said:

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Post with the results of the tests. :)

 

DOA drives are a common problems so it's very important to test them as soon as you receive your drives. 


One thing I wanted to add: The fact that a drive is designed for certain type of purpose doesn't mean it can't work for other purposes. It's a different manner if there's any point in that or if there are any risks. It all depends on what you are looking for. :)

 

Captain_WD.

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3 hours ago, Captain_WD said:

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19 hours ago, annoyingmoments said:

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No offence, I know Captin_WD that your helping annoying moments but could you please message each other or make a new thread, since this one is solved and is dyeing a little and i keep getting notifications :/

Thanks :D

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