WD Blue, Black, Gold, or other?

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Claiming does not equal truth. Benchmarks don't lie some people just don't defrag their disk and are like hey it's slow or...


blue is faster than the black in gaming thanks to it denser data density.

 


Eum not according to benchmarks and tests. The wd black and gold are both faster than the blue.
 

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I somewhere read that blues loose they performance by time, and are less reliable. Black is a bit slower than blue, but have longer warranty, and constant performance. In toms hardware I read that golds is for server use, and have less power consumption, so I don't know it is good for daily user like gaming, office and etc.... Need more opinions...
 


Iknow the benchmarks say that, but ive seen several times on this forum claiming people that the blue is faster than the black.

@op I would get a 250gb ssg (samsung 850 evo ) and a 1tb hdd
 


Claiming does not equal truth. Benchmarks don't lie some people just don't defrag their disk and are like hey it's slow or they have a bunch of crap running in the background on the drive that makes it slower.

Hard drives do not get slower over time (unless the motor starts dying of course). What happens is clutter, needing more rotations to read a file because it's fragmented,... This is why there is something called defragmenting.

Gold has a larger cachefile and therefore is a bit faster than a black. The black has a larger cache file than a blue and is therefore a bit faster than it.

 
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