WD green performance.

[k1ng_alex]

I am in need of a new hard drive on the cheap side , im looking at my local used market and the only drives for sale are all WD green drives. 

I am used to running a non color WD drive with an SSD for my OS , this drive will mainly be used for mass storage.

Are green drives really bad on performance?

for comparison at my local NCIX i can get a WD blue 1TB for 80$(ish) or 40$ for a 1TB WD green used 

[79wjd]

I'd go for the Green, it will be fine.

[Mohenjo]

go for the green, if its not your main storage the difference is not worth 40 dollars 

[k1ng_alex]

A new add for a WD black just got posted a 1TB WD black for the same as the green.

[ZetZet]

green drives are really bad and it's used, don't buy used HDD's, you don't know what they have been through

[LogicalDrm]

WD Greens run at slower rpm, 5400. Blue and Black run on 7200rpm. Greens are best for backups and mass storage, not for software.

[ZetZet]

11 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

WD Greens run at slower rpm, 5400. Blue and Black run on 7200rpm. Greens are best for backups and mass storage, not for software.

and they park their head which is by far the most annoying thing about them. when you disable parking it's okay-ish.

[Captain_WD]

17 hours ago, k1ng_alex said:

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Hey k1ng_alex,

WD Green drives are quite good in terms of transfer speed. You can check the corresponding speed of each drive by model and capacity here: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=NvGcMQ

The difference in performance comes from the energy-saving features of the drive that enable it to save energy and to run far more quiet and cooler. The drive spins down more often and takes time to spin back up instead of constantly spinning and making more noise and drawing more power from the PSU. 
It's a good drive for secondary storage, backups and non-demanding operations.

Post back if you need more info!

Captain_WD.