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i am looking to buy some new storage space, because my 500 gb drive is quite full

 

is the price difference ( 17 euro's on an 1 tb drive) worth it?

the WD blue costs 50 euro's, and the WD black is 67 euros

any other suggestions for drives?

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Black's loud.

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i am looking to buy some new storage space, because my 500 gb drive is quite full

 

is the price difference ( 17 euro's on an 1 tb drive) worth it?

the WD blue costs 50 euro's, and the WD black is 67 euros

any other suggestions for drives?

Get the black, it's a little bit faster. 

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Get the black, it's a little bit faster. 

but is it 17 euro's faster?

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but is it 17 euro's faster?

The black is significantly faster than the blue in all tasks and is a far more reliable drive. Also they cross ship black drive but not blues. meaning you call today with a bad drive and they put the new one in the mail that day and you have 30 days to return it. The blue they wait to receive it before shipping a new one to you.
 
Basically these are the drives

 

Green = Okay

Blue = Good

Black = Best

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The black is significantly faster than the blue in all tasks and is a far more reliable drive. Also they cross ship black drive but not blues. meaning you call today with a bad drive and they put the new one in the mail that day and you have 30 days to return it. The blue they wait to receive it before shipping a new one to you.
 
Basically these are the drives

 

Green = Okay

Blue = Good

Black = Best

 

do you have any clue howmuch % faster? im coming from an 5400rpm drive, without ssd, so 5 % wont matter that much

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do you have any clue howmuch % faster? im coming from an 5400rpm drive, without ssd, so 5 % wont matter that much

It will.

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do you have any clue howmuch % faster? im coming from an 5400rpm drive, without ssd, so 5 % wont matter that much

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It will.

is the WD black the best drive to buy costing about 40 % more?

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is the WD black the best drive to buy costing about 40 % more?

$17 is not a lot of money when the drive is going to last you for many years. 

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I have a blue drive and it's lasted me quite a while thought he black drives will perform better.

Is this the real life? Or is this just fantasy?

 

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Black comes with a 5 year warranty.

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Oh my God they gave the Black drive a blue colour on that benchmark graph.

it bugged me too,

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Black is faster, along with a longer warranty.

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Get the black, it's a little bit faster. 

 

Black is faster, along with a longer warranty.

I agree it is faster but LOUD. Get a Red drive. Which is much quieter. 

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I agree it is faster but LOUD. Get a Red drive. Which is much quieter. 

red is for NAS's

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This bothers my OCD that they didn't take advantage of the model names and give Blue the blue bar, Black a black bar and so on.

 

Instead of wasting the cash on a loud Black drive, I think you're better off getting a Seagate Enterprise drive. One of the models sports 128MB of cache.

 

 

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red is for NAS's

I know. Shouldn't really make that much of a difference. 

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i am looking to buy some new storage space, because my 500 gb drive is quite full

 

is the price difference ( 17 euro's on an 1 tb drive) worth it?

the WD blue costs 50 euro's, and the WD black is 67 euros

any other suggestions for drives?

Wd refreshed the black series to give more performance , http://youtu.be/L9QBpRjmVyA. Go search up benchmarks , but I don't think there will be much difference in real life . If you can use the 17 euros for something else like a fan then go with blue. Not sure how many years of warranty the blue has

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red is for NAS's

You can use them in a desktop with no issue.

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Wd refreshed the black series to give more performance , http://youtu.be/L9QBpRjmVyA. Go search up benchmarks , but I don't think there will be much difference in real life . If you can use the 17 euros for something else like a fan then go with blue. Not sure how many years of warranty the blue has

Blue has 3 years while the Black has 5

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In 3 years time, I doubt that hard drive will be used for anything other than backup. 1TB SSDs can be had for 5XXusd now..which was unheard of a few years ago. 3-5 years from now, You could probably get a 1TB SSD for the price of what you pay for a 240GB SSD now.

 

 

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In 3 years time, I doubt that hard drive will be used for anything other than backup. 1TB SSDs can be had for 5XXusd now..which was unheard of a few years ago. 3-5 years from now, You could probably get a 1TB SSD for the price of what you pay for a 240GB SSD now.

but now, that hdd will be my boot drive

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but now, that hdd will be my boot drive

 

Then get a Seagate Constellation CS.3 drive with 128mb of cache. Twice the cache of the drives considered and it's enterprise grade.

 

 

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