2TB internal WD Blue? Green? or Black?

[dippi_taurus]

I will be purchasing an internal HDD and I wanted your opinions. The purpose of the HDD will primarily be storage, to play any and all videos stored within and run a few big games. Which among these do you consider good and what are their individual costs?

1. WD Green SATA III 6.0 2TB or
2. WD Blue SATA III 6.0 2TB or
3. WD Black SATA III 6.0 2TB

I have a few WD HDD's with me and so far they haven't given me problems. Also, they are a little bit cheaper compared to Seagate. I'm not against purchasing Seagate HDD's so, if there is a better HDD wrt to their corresponding WD counterpart then I'm open to buy them.

Regards.

 

[harshilsharma63]

get blue. black is the fastest but most expensive; green is the cheapest but not reliable. WD Blue 2 TB should be available for 5.8k.

 

[AKRICK]

I got 1TB WD Blue 64mb cache last week from Lagmington road for 3800...i dont think 2gb model is that high(5800)....Black1 is definately high but Blue more than enough...

 

[The Incinerator]

First things first,there is No 2TB Blue Version of WD HDD.The 1TB is the maximum you would get in the Blue category. Green is not a reliable version I would either get a WD AV-GP ,WD20EURS version over it for reliability alone,or would get the best 2TB available in the market the Toshiba DT01ACA200, very very fast.

 

[Chaitanya]

I will be purchasing an internal HDD and I wanted your opinions. The purpose of the HDD will primarily be storage, to play any and all videos stored within and run a few big games.

Toshiba DT01ACA200, very very fast.

Case solved..

 

[dippi_taurus]

First things first,there is No 2TB Blue Version of WD HDD.The 1TB is the maximum you would get in the Blue category. Green is not a reliable version I would either get a WD AV-GP ,WD20EURS version over it for reliability alone,or would get the best 2TB available in the market the Toshiba DT01ACA200, very very fast.

Ah, my bad. No 2TB Blue - I did not see that. Toshiba has only 2 yrs warranty.

So, I guess I'm gonna stick with WD Black this time. BTW, any firmware issues, RMA's for the WD Black 3TB/4TB 's ?

 

[The Incinerator]

Toshiba has 3 years warranty.

 

[dippi_taurus]

Toshiba has 3 years warranty.

It says here as 2yrs warranty. DT01ACA Series

 

[The Incinerator]

^^Thats Toshiba USA. But one site offers 2 years and It depot warrants 3 years!! Strange ,so I believe it best to believe its 2 years.

Buy Online Toshiba 1TB 7200RPM SATA Internal Desktop Hard Drive (DT01ACA100) in india

 

[Gollum]

What is the difference b/w the 3 colors. Can someone care to explain

"don't say google it"

 

[Chaitanya]

Blue is std performing drive for daily computingg.

Green is for power efficient systems (generally varying spin rate with max of 5400RPM & hence poor performance)

Black is enthusiast level drive that provide max performance 7200rpm speed ( & cost a bomb)

Velociraptor.. (name is enough ain't it??) enterprise level 10,000 rpm drives that are scorching fast & costly enough to burn grand canyon in your pocket)

One more Red developed for use in NAS drives.

 

[Zangetsu]

I have WD Blue so I'll suggest Blue but if its not available then get Black
Green has high failure rates

 

[Chaitanya]

Buddy Blue 2TB doesn't exist..
If op can afford then WD black else Toshiba one is very sensible option

 

[harshilsharma63]

First things first,there is No 2TB Blue Version of WD HDD.

Will take care next time

 

[The Incinerator]

I dont know why WD Blue 2TB is not there ,it confuses me too

 

[harshilsharma63]

I dont know why WD Blue 2TB is not there ,it confuses me too

Yeah. This moves large market to Seagate (I dont think shopkeepers sell Toshiba HDDs).