WD Black or WD Gold Idea

[SirWestofAsh]

So I need at least 6tb of storage i'm trying to back up 4tb wd black and my 2 tb wd black and some 500gb ssd's. These aren't all completely filled but I was doing some research and WD Black's are almost the same price as WD Gold's 

WD GOLD: 234$ @ time of post for 6tb

https://www.amazon.com/Gold-Datacenter-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B01AV168FS/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1505159263&sr=8-5&keywords=wd+gold

 

WD Black: 255$ @ time of post for 6tb

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Performance-Desktop-Hard-Drive/dp/B01MQWHTBE/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1505159309&sr=1-1&keywords=wd+black+6tb

While 6tb is my minimum. I was curious what everyone has to think? Which is better black or gold? according to the spec sheets on WD's website the gold is faster, has same cache, and same warranties. Uses slightly less power and etc... However, I was thinking it might be nice to go ahead and get a 10tb version for future proofing and future backing up. I was just curious if there is any performance difference between black and gold or any significant difference at all?

 

I will not just use it for backing up. I may use it to store games for emulators, tv shows, movies, or adobe files from my editing that aren't in immediate use. Can anyone shed some light on the differences and is the Gold the better option that in my mind it appears to be?

 

WD Gold Spec Sheet:

http://www.hye.co.il/Uploads/Products/Files/45/20d73910.pdf

 

WD Black Spec Sheet:

http://www.hye.co.il/Uploads/Products/Files/50/40f85cd0.pdf

[ARikozuM]

I'd go for the Black, but either choice is good.

[RyanChase]

I would say go for black, though both would do the job you want quite well.

[SirWestofAsh]

But why the black when it is more expensive?

[ARikozuM]

3 minutes ago, SirWestofAsh said:

But why the black when it is more expensive?

Controller would be my reason. The Gold is also a bit louder from my usage. 

[SirWestofAsh]

is it? According to the spec sheet they should be comparable decibels? How is the controller better?

[NumLock21]

The old spec or brochure sheet for WD Black says, it's has a dual processor. Don't know where that dual processor is,  on the HDD's PCB. The Gold is their Enterprise storage. I think the old name was RE, RE3, etc.

[ARikozuM]

2 hours ago, SirWestofAsh said:

is it? According to the spec sheet they should be comparable decibels? How is the controller better?

The Black has better scheduling. I don't know much about the Gold's controller. I also don't know if the Gold has piezoelectric motosr for finer movement of the read/write heads. 

[iiNNeX]

Gold will be fine for your use.

[SirWestofAsh]

Thank you all for your recommendations! come black friday i'll pony up