WD Greens good for media storage and playback?

madindehead · 6 Oct 2009 at 10:12

Looking for some new storage drives soon, and I was just wondering if the WD Greens are good for storing media, and playing it back?

I know they have the variable speed on them, so are they good for playing music and movies off?

bledd · 6 Oct 2009 at 10:18

they're perfect for this

you have to remember even though the greens are considered 'slower' they still slam drives from 3+ years ago

80mb read speed etc

madindehead · 6 Oct 2009 at 10:51

bledd. said:
they're perfect for this

you have to remember even though the greens are considered 'slower' they still slam drives from 3+ years ago

80mb read speed etc

Perfect ^^

bledd · 6 Oct 2009 at 11:05

I use one myself in my media centre pc

madindehead · 6 Oct 2009 at 11:11

Nicely. Decided on Black for my OS and games, and then a Green or two for storage.

shaf · 6 Oct 2009 at 13:25

Just installed 3 of these (2x1.5TB and 1x1TB) in a WHS server for backup/playback and no problems so far.

Fahim · 7 Oct 2009 at 01:04

They are fine when you use them as a normal drive. I had two installed as mirror raid, and they became so slow, even the 720P HD movies were lagging every couple mintues.

I had samsung drives before (F2 5400 RPM) as RAID, and they were perfect. Looks like WD Green is slower than Samsung F2.

I am talking about the WD WD15EADS & Samsung HD154UI.