WD Red or Green for Video Streaming/Encoding??

lettuce · 8 Mar 2014 at 15:16

Would a WD green drive be fast enough for video game streaming and encoding at 1080p 60fps or would i be better of getting a WD red?

jh30uk · 8 Mar 2014 at 15:19

Was asked other day what each is for, WD site/Forum has better info.

Red = Primary NAS

Green = Slower/use less power and fitted in many Ext HDD's, issue they they go to sleep often.

Neither are that fast, the Black is fast and ideal for Video work but expensive.

Possibly look at Blues which are in many Media players.

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/desktop/

On Holiday · 8 Mar 2014 at 15:20

The Green should be fine, Read/Write is around 110-120Mb/s IIRC, the Red is around 140Mb/s

I've personally got a 3TB WD Red which I use for storage and recording gameplay to.

lettuce · 8 Mar 2014 at 15:40

Is the Blue still being produced??...didnt see it in any of my searches. If the green is capable of keeping up with streaming/encoding then id rather get that for less heat, noise and power consumption in my system

jh30uk · 8 Mar 2014 at 15:48

Not sure and only 1TB, I busted open a mates dead Sumvision Media player and have the 500GB Blue from it.

Purgatory · 8 Mar 2014 at 16:41

lettuce said:
Is the Blue still being produced??...didnt see it in any of my searches. If the green is capable of keeping up with streaming/encoding then id rather get that for less heat, noise and power consumption in my system

Yes they still make Blues.

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/desktop/

Blue
Green
Black
Red
Purple

demon8991 · 9 Mar 2014 at 01:28

YarwoodUK said:
The Green should be fine, Read/Write is around 110-120Mb/s IIRC, the Red is around 140Mb/s

I've personally got a 3TB WD Red which I use for storage and recording gameplay to.

I also have wo 3TB WD Red drives which I use for storage and they do the job very well you also get a 3 year warranty as opposed to the two year warranty on the Green drives.