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April 28, 2014 6:20:09 PM

I am looking at desktop hard drives and wondering which to get, people have said seagate is bad so, I'm looking at WD. But they have a ton of diffrent types of drives and people say the black is for the best performance but I don't have the money and people are saying green have bad performance, so my choice is either red or blue. Which is faster and better for gaming?

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April 28, 2014 6:23:17 PM

red version is for NAS like network storage while blue is everyday computing
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April 28, 2014 6:25:43 PM

The Blue overall if the Black is too much. Never had an issue with them. There's been a lot of issues with Red's being used in PC's. Green's are not meant to be the main drive, but a secondary hard drive.
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April 28, 2014 6:31:54 PM

dandn0ten said:
red version is for NAS like network storage while blue is everyday computing


Is red faster than blue?
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April 28, 2014 6:38:32 PM

Blues. best balance of price and performance as an OS drive.

Reds are more meant for NAS, and as such have a much slower access time as an OS drive. though if this solely a storage drive, no problem there, though you may want a more power friendly & cheaper solution there like....

... the Greens. the most reliable HDD there is in 2013 alongside the Blues (http://www.techspot.com/article/780-puget-reliable-pc-h...). however, it makes for a slow OS drive.

Blacks & the Velociraptors just isn't worth it personally, on account of the high speed = quicker wear & tear + those prices. you want fast? get an SSD.

as an owner for several Seagate drives (2 internals, 3 external) for several years, SG is an option. never got a problem with them, especially after one of the external fell a feet or two. now you're probably looking at this (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/p...) and thinking "maybe not". but note that was tested under extreme conditions where the drive ran for 24/7. a more common PC user environment where you take the time to turn off your PC when not in use will yield a much better result. mine did in these 2-3 years.
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April 28, 2014 6:40:43 PM

its hard to tell because it seems like red is hybrid between green and black and its ideal for RAID while blue is your baseline drives for general usage. comparing to the speed, in my opnion blue would be faster
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April 28, 2014 6:41:08 PM

runswindows95 said:
The Blue overall if the Black is too much. Never had an issue with them. There's been a lot of issues with Red's being used in PC's. Green's are not meant to be the main drive, but a secondary hard drive.


And I think think blue comes in 2tb
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April 28, 2014 6:42:00 PM

Hazle said:
Blues. best balance of price and performance as an OS drive.

Reds are more meant for NAS, and as such have a much slower access time as an OS drive. though if this solely a storage drive, no problem there, though you may want a more power friendly & cheaper solution there like....

... the Greens. the most reliable HDD there is in 2013 alongside the Blues (http://www.techspot.com/article/780-puget-reliable-pc-h...). however, it makes for a slow OS drive.

Blacks & the Velociraptors just isn't worth it personally, on account of the high speed = quicker wear & tear + those prices. you want fast? get an SSD.

as an owner for several Seagate drives (2 internals, 3 external) for several years, SG is an option. never got a problem with them, especially after one of the external fell a feet or two. now you're probably looking at this (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/p...) and thinking "maybe not". but note that was tested under extreme conditions where the drive ran for 24/7. a more common PC user environment where you take the time to turn off your PC when not in use will yield a much better result. mine did in these 2-3 years.


Are SG hard drives 7200rpm? also I guess SG would be an option because WD blue dont come in 2TB

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April 28, 2014 6:48:44 PM

honestly, i did not know Blues didn't come in 2TB. i'd assume if there was a 2TB Green, there'd be a 2TB Blue.

and not all SG drives necessarily come in 7200rpm.
http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/#sort...

but again, if this is mainly a storage drive, 5400rpm isn't a bad compromise.
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April 28, 2014 7:06:12 PM

I think I"ll go with a SG Barracuda
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