They Sent me green drive, should i return it?

Kareshnaka

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OK folks, I tried to buy a 1tb blue western digital drive (WD10EZEX) from amazon for my new gaming build. It was going to be my only storage solution for the computer. so the package finally came today, and I open it and its a western digital WD30EURS 3Tb green hard drive. should I be mad and return it, or should I keep it and buy an ssd for my os? the 3tb hard drive retails at ~$110USD and since I only paid $64 for it, should i be happy?
 
Solution
for heavy storage, green drive is more reliable and cheap and also last longer . . for OS and probably gaming you should buy and SSD like samsung evo 120 or more
You will be pleased with a SSD for the os. Use the green for storage of large files.
The problem with the green is that it has slower rpm and will park when not in use.
A OS needs fast small random I/O which is exactly what the SSD does best.
Amazon may have done you a favor by the mistake.