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lehighace06   08-08-2009 at 10:39:15 PM

A coworker asked me, and other than the cache size and power consumption, i wasn't sure what else to answer... What IS the difference between the colors of Caviar drives? I've been under the impression it is primarily the power consumption but I have to assume there are other things as well.

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Performance. The Black is optimized for performance at the expense of noise and power consumption, the blue is a general use drive, designed to be a good balance of performance, power consumption, and noise, and the green is designed to use as little power and make as little noise as possible at the expense of performance.
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cjl   08-08-2009 at 10:53:08 PM
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Performance. The Black is optimized for performance at the expense of noise and power consumption, the blue is a general use drive, designed to be a good balance of performance, power consumption, and noise, and the green is designed to use as little power and make as little noise as possible at the expense of performance.

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lehighace06   08-08-2009 at 11:08:53 PM

well put. that's about what i figured, thanks for confirming it.

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mcgregorslo   11-26-2009 at 08:27:48 AM

Well, how much of performance drop are we talking about on green drive or blue? And how much more noise makes black drive? So for games black is best? For storage only; green drive?

 

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cjl   11-26-2009 at 09:07:47 AM

Honestly, the difference isn't huge. I'd tend towards the black for just about any use, but I'm impatient. As far as noise goes, the black is audible, but nothing outrageous (while the green is basically silent).

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lehighace06   12-03-2009 at 05:24:49 AM

you guys know this is a 3 month old thread, right?

------------------------------ Core i7 920 2.6GHz | Asus P6T Deluxe V2 | EVGA GTX 275 896mb | OCZ Platinum DDR3 1600 6gb | Corsair 850TX | Caviar Black 750gb | Antec 900 | Samsung 25.5\" HD Rose Black and 19\" Syncmaster dual monitor
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cjl   12-03-2009 at 12:00:22 PM

Yep - I remember when it originally came up. My second response was to mcgregorslo's question.

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lehighace06   12-03-2009 at 06:50:45 PM

i guess i was more curious why mcgreg was pulling this out of the archives =)

------------------------------ Core i7 920 2.6GHz | Asus P6T Deluxe V2 | EVGA GTX 275 896mb | OCZ Platinum DDR3 1600 6gb | Corsair 850TX | Caviar Black 750gb | Antec 900 | Samsung 25.5\" HD Rose Black and 19\" Syncmaster dual monitor
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Jamac666   12-07-2009 at 06:14:49 PM

To be honest they are all very similar anyway!

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