difference between WD Blue and Black?

[Alexzz_]

what is the difference between WD blue and WD black hard drives except for the price?

[NumLock21]

2 years on blue 5 years on black

[Alexzz_]

13 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

2 years on blue 5 years on black

warranty?

[LiamApex]

the black is better in general... its more reliable designed to last longer. i always use WD Black for my HDDs

[NumLock21]

5 minutes ago, Alexzz_ said:

warranty?

Yep

And old blue runs at 7200 same as Black. New blue runs at 5400. Their SSHD are part of the Blue line up.

@Captain_WD can tell you more about those drives.

[Najuno]

It depends if you do more than DATA storage on that drive then you´d be better off with a Black. A Blue is good enough as storage or cache.

[soup]

Sure the Captain will be along soon to give you the full SP.

 

All IMHO

Basically you could look at the Blue as good enough to use as a storage drive in a system which boots from an SSD, Black is slightly more high end but apart from it having a longer warranty there isn't (or rather wasn't; last time I looked into HDs was three years or so ago) a great deal of difference.

Generally; Red is for NAS, Purple surveillance systems , Green the slow Eco one, Blue normal HD duties, Black a high end version of Blue.

[Captain_WD]

15 hours ago, Alexzz_ said:

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Hey there Alexzz_,

 

The guys gave you some accurate info. Here's a bit more:

WD Black is generally designed for better performance and more extensive and heavy usage and longer workloads. The drive features a dual-core CPU that helps a lot during multitasking. As the guys pointed out, the drive has a longer warranty and is recommended for workstations, heavy gaming with recording and other more demanding usages. The differences in performance become more apparent in larger capacity versions as the WD Black stays a performance drive with 7,200 rpm and even 128MB cache on the 5TB and 6TB models.

 

WD Blue on the other hand is a drive recommended for simple budget builds and systems used for general computing. The 1TB versions of both drives seem quite similar with the only difference in the warranty, but the WD Black should perform better under heavier loads and multitasking. We've integrated the older WD Green drives in the WD Blue line so there are two types of WD Blue now - the 5,400 rpm ones and the 7,200 ones. Larger capacities are aimed for secondary storage and backups and pretty much have the features of the old WD Green drives while the 7,200 rpm. models are up to 1TB and remain the same WD Blue drives as you know them. 

 

It would really depend on what you want from the drive and how big of a drive you'd like to have.
 

Post back if you need more info! 

 

Thanks for mentioning @NumLock21 

 

Captain_WD.