WD Green vs Red?

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Hey all,

Long story short:
- looking to replace 2x1TB HDDs with one 4TB drive
- will be almost entirely for large media storage, downloading/installing stuff from, and OS backups
- using a 250GB Samsung 840 as an OS drive, and a 500GB 850 Evo as a games/photoshop drive.

Am I likely to notice any serious performance difference between the cheaper/cooler/slower WD Green vs the Red? Is either of them notably more reliable than the other?

Cheers!
 
Reds are better for network usage and greens are better for quiet operation. Both are as good as the other, but it depends on what you want out of it.
 
It sounds like greens would be ideally suited to your needs. If the drive is being used in a RAID environment, or in a NAS then I'd go with red instead.

I've had 3x 2TB greens for years and no problems - using them for exactly what you've described.

Have recently moved to using a microserver, and now got most of my data on a new 6TB red. Am still using the old greens, now as part of a SHR array on the microserver, just for backup purposes. But will probably be migrating to reds over time.

As Snips says, both are good - it really depends what you want from the drive.
 
Cheers guys - no NAS uses for this one, but it might get used 4-8 hours per day. Is that Red territory?

I do run a very quiet system though, that's definitely a plus for a Green.
 
The PC I had my greens in was on 24/7. The media files were probably being accessed 4-8 hours a day, if not more.

I wouldn't see any problem with greens, especially if you're running a quiet system already.
 
Thanks chaps, think I'll grab myself a Green. Maybe if I ever upgrade my NAS/backup box I'll get a Red for that :)
 
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