WD Which 1 Is Best???

Kingy1968 · 13 Nov 2008 at 14:15

Ive just arsed back my faulty Seagate hard drive and got a refund.

I am now toying with the idea on 2 hard drives from OCUK

They are the Western Digital 640 Gigs , Either the BLACK or the Blue
Which one of these are the fastest??

Operating system mainly with a few games??

Thanks

Slashiem · 13 Nov 2008 at 14:30

I think blue are the generally purpose jobbies, where the Black ones are the faster drives.

So basically the WD Black is the one you want.

da_ging · 13 Nov 2008 at 14:32

from the benchmarks there appears to be no difference apart from aam being enabled on the blues but i think the blacks have a 5 year warranty as opposed to the blues 3 years

jas07 · 13 Nov 2008 at 18:39

I'd be very interested in this thread too because either one of those drives will be my next upgrade. As far as I know these drives are basicly identical apart from the black having a larger cache.

Both are meant to be superb drives so I don't think you'd go wrong with either of them to be honest.

Kingy1968 · 13 Nov 2008 at 21:00

Like I said in my earlier post I want it mainly for my operating system and a couple of games that I play online..

So as long as its fast then ill be happy

danielanthony · 14 Nov 2008 at 14:52

I've got a 640Gb black, it silent and loads Vista pretty quickly. Not as fast as the 2x32Gb SSD drives I have but hey ho. 64Gb SSDs + Vista x64 = not enough space.