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BackwardSoldier

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Hi all.

I'm thinking of buying a 10TB WD Gold drive to replace the 4TB WD Green in my gaming/editing rig.

Since they say the WD Gold is for datacenters im not sure if it would work properly.
 
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derekullo

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The only difference between the gold and the red pro is the mean time before failure.

1 million hours for the red pro. 10 x 10^15 chance for bit errors ... 1 x 10^14 WD trying to confuse people lol
2.5 million hours for the gold. 1 x 1^15 chance for bit errors



Also the gold comes in the 10 terabyte size you requested.
Highest for red pro is 8 terabytes.

https://www.wdc.com/content/dam/wdc/website/downloadable_assets/eng/spec_data_sheet/2879-800022.pdf
https://www.wdc.com/content/dam/wdc/website/downloadable_assets/eng/spec_data_sheet/2879-800074.pdf
 
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littleleo

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As long as it uses the same sata3 bus it should be fine. I'm not sure why anyone would go that route it's like using a Clydesdale for a pony ride, or dropping a Diesel truck engine in a Pinto, but hey if you want to pay that much for a drive more power to you.

Green drives are a joke, slower performance and you save less than a $1 per year on your electric bill. WD couldn't get them to sell well and relabeled them Blue drives. So any WD Blue drive that is 5400 RPM was probably a WD Green drive that was relabeled. Get a regular 7200 RPM SATA3 Drive and a SSD boot drive and you'll be flying. Server drives are not made for performance but endurance under 24/7 run times with multiple machines accessing them. You are not doing that so your paying for a slow drive with functions you will never use or need. But as a computer parts vendor thank you for your donation, lol.
 
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The Gold series has a different firmware designed for better utilization of certain software that data centers use. This does not affect the home user Windows PC however. With that said, I wouldn't trust putting all my eggs in one basket on a single large drive without backup.

To the other person above, he stated he wants a single 10TB drive, and only the Gold offers that size.

 
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marko55

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That gold HDD is serious overkill for a home computer honestly. Its specifically designed to run in rackmount systems amongst a bunch of other drives in large chassis where there's a lot of vibration.

If you want high end still, and to save a few bucks, Seagate's got a few drives that will be great and still have 5yr warranties, like the Barracuda pro (newegg's 10TB listing is wrong; its a 5yr warranty). That drive essentially has the same reliability specs as their nearline enterprise drives, just not the same resistance to large scale rackmount environments. For a few bucks more you can get the Seagate enterprise helium 10TB, and still be cheaper than the WD gold. These Seagate drives are honestly fantastic.

If anyone's scared of the backblaze reports about Seagate note that those specs were not only from the use of desktop drives in massive rackmount systems, they were also the older model. These new models, and the enterprise models specifically, are very different and FAR higher quality. I've installed over 70 Seagate enterprise HDDs in custom rackmount servers and NASs and they're solid. Just run each one through a seatools long generic test to ensure they pass then throw em in and enjoy the performance.

On a side note, getting in to larger sizes like this I like to RAID to get performance AND scalable size. I wouldn't do it with WD greens though.
 
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I am also thinking of purchasing a WD Ae Datacenter 6TB hard drive. Reason being is New Egg Flash has it for only $163. The nearest WD 6 TB hard drive specifically designed for a PC is $300+.
Reading these answers, I think I'll go for it.
 
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marko55

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Decent drive but by no means is that a high performance HDD. Its meant more as a cold storage archive HDD or maybe for something like video (NVR) storage. If you're looking for higher performance (I'm talkin like 50% more...) you want a better drive.
 
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