Black vs Gold WD HDD?

[Surpuppa]

So I am going to buy a new HDD, and performance is important, for that reason I should choose WD black drives if have understood correctly. The problem is that it has ~150mbs write speed, and the gold has ~200mbs according to its specs, so the gold drive is faster? Also, I have heard many reports of the black drives being very loud. Is the gold drives more quiet? My reasoning behind this is because it has technology to reduce vibration.

Or is an SSHD faster than both of them? 
Edit: I have an SSD as boot drive already. The question is about an HDD as secondary mass storage

[L00bs4n00bs]

Ssd is silent and kills them on speed take the leap

[Surpuppa]

Just now, L00bs4n00bs said:

Ssd is silent and kills them on speed take the leap

I know... But I need mass storage, I cant afford 4 tb ssd

[dcgreen2k]

I would just get an SSD, and then another hard drive if it isn't large enough.

[Surpuppa]

Just now, thegreengamers said:

I would just get an SSD, and then another hard drive if it isn't large enough.

I already have an ssd

[L00bs4n00bs]

1 minute ago, Surpuppa said:

I already have an ssd

Just get 36 128gb ssd's

 

Do it for linus

[Cyberspirit]

15 minutes ago, Surpuppa said:

So I am going to buy a new HDD, and performance is important, for that reason I should choose WD black drives if have understood correctly. The problem is that it has ~150mbs write speed, and the gold has ~200mbs according to its specs, so the gold drive is faster? Also, I have heard many reports of the black drives being very loud. Is the gold drives more quiet? My reasoning behind this is because it has technology to reduce vibration.

Or is an SSHD faster than both of them? 
Edit: I have an SSD as boot drive already. The question is about an HDD as secondary mass storage

I'm pretty sure faster means louder so i'd just get a black one and put it in a NAS or somewhere where away from you if it's THAT loud.

 

I personally hate HDD noise but they are cheaper and have more storage than a normal SSD. For now...

 

 

[ARikozuM]

I'd go with the Black. The Gold can be quite a bit louder. 

[HeX EyE]

@#the greengamers# &#L00bs4n00bs# WOW I hate when people continuously cannot seem to just answer a simple question without having to input "ONLY" what they would do or want!!! Seriously here #surpuppa# has now told you a few times that He already has a Solid State that he is using as his boot drive BUT he is now wanting MASS Storage!! Last I checked SSD's are not exactly the cheapest way to achieve mass storage especially when looking for something in the range of 4TB. Yes they are much faster but to get 4tb you are looking at approx. $1200 at the low end which would get you 8qty Samsung 500gb 850 Evo SSD's then you have the issue of try to connect all of those which would be a headache even using a large desktop box. 

 

Anyway @#surpuppa#, Between the WD Gold & Black 4TB HDD drives your correct the Gold will be quieter than the black because it is sealed with pressurized Helium, but even though the Gold does have a faster "on paper" transfer rate that is most likely not what you'll experience if you where to test both of them side by side using the same types of files you already have, that is because the gold is optimized for enterprise computing whereas the black is optimized for gaming & typical pc user use! You'd be better off going with the WD Black for your uses & you'll probably get the same if not better speeds using it on your setup than you would if using the Gold series! Just my honest opinion, more reasoning for this answer is if you think of it, Enterprise computing don't usually have many if any mp4's, mp3's & other media type files that usually are on personal pc's thus WD could very well be rating the transfer speed of the gold enterprise drive using only files typical of enterprise use! You can see for yourself when you transfer a ton of pdf files the speed will be much higher than if you where to transfer a ton of movies folder (that may contain an MP4 some screenshots of the movie & maybe a preview mp4 file of the movie along with a metadata file). Hope this helps, Tom C

[Surpuppa]

On 2017-11-02 at 12:21 AM, HeX EyE said:

Between the WD Gold & Black 4TB HDD drives your correct the Gold will be quieter than the black because it is sealed with pressurized Helium, but even though the Gold does have a faster "on paper" transfer rate that is most likely not what you'll experience if you where to test both of them side by side using the same types of files you already have, that is because the gold is optimized for enterprise computing whereas the black is optimized for gaming & typical pc user use! You'd be better off going with the WD Black for your uses & you'll probably get the same if not better speeds using it on your setup than you would if using the Gold series! Just my honest opinion, more reasoning for this answer is if you think of it, Enterprise computing don't usually have many if any mp4's, mp3's & other media type files that usually are on personal pc's thus WD could very well be rating the transfer speed of the gold enterprise drive using only files typical of enterprise use! You can see for yourself when you transfer a ton of pdf files the speed will be much higher than if you where to transfer a ton of movies folder (that may contain an MP4 some screenshots of the movie & maybe a preview mp4 file of the movie along with a metadata file). Hope this helps, Tom C

Thanks for the help! 

[sonyzz]

On 2017-11-01 at 10:21 PM, L00bs4n00bs said:

Ssd is silent and kills them on speed take the leap

Call me when 14TB ssd will cost 400-600 dollar

[L00bs4n00bs]

Just as I'm getting dragged in this thread

 

My first comment he hadn't made the edit so i didnt know it was for storage or that he had a ssd and my second was obvs a joke

 

Cheers