Current transfer rate of mechanical HDDs

TheMorningStar

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What's the transfer rate sitting at these days for high density drives like the WD green 6tb?

Speed isn't really important, I'm just interested in where storage drives like the Greens and performance drives like the Blacks are at these days.

Anything worth considering over a WD green btw? Upgrade imminent, media only, OS, progs and games on SSD.
 
its worth considering a wd red over a wd green imo, id not bother with seagate, ive been incredibly dissapointed with my 3TB seagate, a lot hotter and noiser than my 1TB WD with a shorter warranty than equiv WD, it was cheaper but thats all its got going for it.
 
Yeah, I'm pretty happy with my Greens. I think one or two may have a bad sector but no drive failure in... however long I have had these guys.. 5 years maybe? 6? 7?

What are the notable/practical differences between Red and Green beyond colour spectrum :p Also I think I saw a WD Purple at some point
 
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I did find some benchmark reviews that were giving numbers over 200mbps I think the blacks hitting 280ish and the greens 230/250 maybe. didn't seem right to me but platter density is pretty high compared to the disks in those reviews. Maybe it was burst speed but I'm really not sure.

I can't justify a NAS at that cost really, I could just build a mini PC.. or replace the broken PSUs in any one of my shuttles for much less and have it do the same job with much greater functionality. I did see an atom micro PC that would have been great as a NAS but the USB 2.0 was a deal breaker for that, usb 3 would have made it perfect.

I think that really though, my personal system is a 24/7 machine (actually much better for maintaining longer life on components if they are not powered on and off regularly) so the drives are probably best situated in there. Map the drives and set permissions etc and I have all the functionality I need.

I'm not sure on the WD Reds tbh, look to be nice drives but I haven't seen a direct comparison with things like noise and temps. A raid 5 array maybe a little cool but for my usage, raid optimisations probably wouldn't amount to much and the cost of full redundancy is maybe a little to much for me, I have much less than a TB of files I wouldn't like to lose or are hard to replace.
 
Hi MorningStar.

For more detailed technical specs of both the WD Green and WD Red drive models, you could take a look at those files:
WD Red (Pdf)
WD Green (Pdf)

I would recommend WD Green as well (instead of a WD Red drive) if the purpose is secondary storage. Just FYI, because you've mentioned that you don't know the noise and temp levels of the WD Red drives - I'd say they are pretty similar to those of a WD Green drive as the WD Red drives also features IntelliPower just as the WD Green drive does.

And here's the technical specs sheet for the WD Black drive models: WD Black (Pdf)

Let me know if you have any questions.
Boogieman_WD
 
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If it were me I would go for the WD Reds.

Not quite sure why people are saying go for green drives. There is negligible difference in price and the Reds come with a 3 year warranty vs a 2 year warranty on the Greens.

Also if your PC is left on 24/7 then the Reds are even more suited to this environment.

This is coming from someone who has 1 x 2TB Green, 2 x 3 TB Reds and 1 x 6TB Reds.

I have run the 2 X 2TB Reds in my PC as a mirrored array for 2 years and have recently gone into a new NAS along with the 6TB Red. They are great for all storage environments.
 
@TheMoningStar
Sure thing mate, cheers!

Hey @demon8991,
I somewhat agree with you, but even if the computer stays ON 24/7, that doesn't mean that the drive would be accessed regularly ( e.g. I don't even turn off my laptop - never sleeps, never hibernates, but that doesn't mean I use it all the time :) ). If this is the case, then the WD Green would be good enough. Although, if it's accessed regularly, probably your suggestion would be the better choice, even if it's not in a RAID configuration. I guess it's up to personal preference. :)
 
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@TheMoningStar
Sure thing mate, cheers!

Hey @demon8991,
I somewhat agree with you, but even if the computer stays ON 24/7, that doesn't mean that the drive would be accessed regularly ( e.g. I don't even turn off my laptop - never sleeps, never hibernates, but that doesn't mean I use it all the time :) ). If this is the case, then the WD Green would be good enough. Although, if it's accessed regularly, probably your suggestion would be the better choice, even if it's not in a RAID configuration. I guess it's up to personal preference. :)
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I guess for me the extra few pounds for another year of warranty is the deciding factor.
 
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