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I almost never turn my PC off... The only time I do turn it off is when the following occur: Windows needs to restart for some reason, or a BSOD, and not turning my PC off seems to possibly be taking a toll on my WD Blue, So my question is do I get another Blue, or get a Red since I almost never turn my computer off. (My hard drive vibrates quite a bit when logging in and doing other tasks)

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Get another blue drive. A red drive is designed to work in a nas, not a pc. It also spins at a slower speed then a blue drive.

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Get another blue drive. A red drive is designed to work in a nas, not a pc. It also spins at a slower speed then a blue drive.

 

Really? Thought they operated at the usual 7,200rpm?

 

I know the Greens spin slower at 5,900rpm

 

But I do agree with the above poster, just get another Blue, the Red should be fine but they are quite expensive and the only real difference is that the Red's are 24/7 tested and certified.

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Really? Thought they operated at the usual 7,200rpm?

 

But I do agree with the above poster, just get another Blue, the Red should be fine but they are quite expensive and the only real difference is that the Red's are 24/7 tested and certified.

Reds spin at 5400 rpm.

For the OP, get a blue or barracuda--whichever is cheaper.

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Does anyone reccomend any other hard drives, I'm looking for speed, and reliability kinda preferring WD because they have free transfer software which only works with WD drives I believe. Idefineately don't want an SSHD though. So anyone recomend any other drives, or some disk copying software? (free disk copying software)

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I almost never turn my PC off... The only time I do turn it off is when the following occur: Windows needs to restart for some reason, or a BSOD, and not turning my PC off seems to possibly be taking a toll on my WD Blue, So my question is do I get another Blue, or get a Red since I almost never turn my computer off. (My hard drive vibrates quite a bit when logging in and doing other tasks)

Running consumer drives in 24/7 is not that big of a problem in my experience.

I've had plenty of standard consumer drives (mostly Samsung) operate for 24/7

since about 2007, no problems at all (although I have now sent them into retirement

and am running some WD RE4's and WD Reds).

Google did a large-scale study on running consumer drives in their farms a few

years back, link here (pdf) if you're interested.

Bottom line: It works. thumb.gif

 

Get another blue drive. A red drive is designed to work in a nas, not a pc. It also spins at a slower speed then a blue drive.

The Red will work just as well in a PC, it's just not very fast. I've been running

them for a few months now without issues. They are whisper quiet and produce very

little heat. :)

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