green vs blue WD drives

shiftyape · Dec 18, 2013

which one of these hard drives has better performance?

Western Digital WD Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache

or

Western Digital WD Green WD5000AZRX 500GB IntelliPower 64MB Cache

i am wondering this because: the green drive has a cache that is 4 times bigger, but the blue drive has a faster rpm (7200 to 5400) the green has been verified to rotate at 5400 rpm through analysis of the sound spectrum, because WD would not release data about that fact. so what is faster?

USAFRet · Dec 18, 2013

The Blue, hands down. The Green drives spin down as needed in an attempt to 'save energy' (being Green!). Spinning back up takes time.

HEXiT · Dec 18, 2013

the 7200 has higher potential transfer rates on both read and write even though it has a smaller cache. the blue is the drive you want if its gonna be your primary boot drive.

littleleo · Dec 18, 2013

Blue w/o a doubt, the green are not meant for performance at all but for energy saving they save about $3-$7 per year yahoo! If you want better performance get the blue. If you want even better performance get the black models.

popatim · Dec 18, 2013

littleleo :

Try under a buck. If left on 24/7/365 its still under $2 a year for me.(I calculated $1.83 at 0.10Kwh)

littleleo · Dec 20, 2013

popatim :

Not worth the degraded performance that is for sure. Unless you want to pop them in a NAS for occasion back ups. Seagate dropped them completely from their product line.

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