WD Green 2TB vs Seagate Barracuda 2TB

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uzo707

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Ok, so i am upgrading from my tiny WD Caviar Blue, it is a good little one, has lasted me for 5 years, no problems at all.

I have been looking around and the ones that is recommended within my price range is WD Green 2TB and Seagate Barracuda 2TB. When looking around it seems like half the people say WD is unreliable and slow and the other half say Seagate is unreliable and noisy.
I am gonna use this this almost exclusively for gaming and photoshop.

And a side thing i want to get a docking station and use my little Caviar blue as a backup drive, so if anyone knows a good one that they can recommend, that would be nice :)
 
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Welcome to the community, uzo707!

As an official Western Digital representative I cannot discuss other brands, however I can share more details about the WD drives though.
You mentioned that you are going to use your new HDD almost exclusively for gaming and demanding applications like Adobe Photoshop. If so, I wouldn't recommend the WD Green, indeed. This drive is designed to be used as a massive secondary storage and backup drive. Its technologies make it spin down because it's supposed to save power consumption, using even IntelliPower RPM. It would be a great choice for storing massive raw files, for example.

However, there's another drive that is designed to deliver high performance, especially in gaming and demanding...
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Welcome to the community, uzo707!

As an official Western Digital representative I cannot discuss other brands, however I can share more details about the WD drives though.
You mentioned that you are going to use your new HDD almost exclusively for gaming and demanding applications like Adobe Photoshop. If so, I wouldn't recommend the WD Green, indeed. This drive is designed to be used as a massive secondary storage and backup drive. Its technologies make it spin down because it's supposed to save power consumption, using even IntelliPower RPM. It would be a great choice for storing massive raw files, for example.

However, there's another drive that is designed to deliver high performance, especially in gaming and demanding applications like Photoshop. This is the WD Black - it has 7,200 RPM and from 64 to 128 MB of cache (depending on the capacity & model). Compared to standard hard drives such as the WD Blue, the WD Black HDDs pass more strenuous and aggressive internal testing over a longer period of time which is why this drive is backed by a 5-year limited warranty. You can check more of its capabilities here: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=xa72sE

I hope this was helpful. Keep me posted if you have further questions about it! :)
SuperSoph_WD
 
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As someone who has owned/owes WD drives...I have had 1 of 3 fail. Seagate is just as good as WD in my book. I chose WD mostly cuz of price and I think I had an extra year of warranty.

However, I have been thinking to get a 2TB to back up everything. If I only use it as backup then I will choose whichever has longer warranty. If I was looking for a daily HDD then I'd get the Seagate easily. The speed is noticeable.

Every day HDD? Seagate over Green
 
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