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WD Blue vs Black: Reliability?

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Saras:
Performance wise, I personally am not aware of any differences in performance between the blue and black series. However, I'd say the 3 years of added warranty warrant the extra 20$.

As for seagate, their drives from a few years back had very... abysmal quality assurance. However, that was then, it is likelly that they've changed, at least I'd hope so. Furthermore, they can indeed contend for OS drives, the Barracuda XT seems to be well liked.

As for Samsung, they seem to be well liked, however I couldn't bring myself to recommend their drives, as all the one's I've had from them are dead.

All that remains is basically Hitachi, out of the major brands. However, I don't know anything about their drives. And given this, I generally recommend blacks. As I've yet to have many unfortunate accidents with them.

vuzedome:
WD's reliability has only gone up, currently using a EARS green and FAEX black, if you know WD you'll know what it means.
Both are doing well, actually almost too good. I've jumped over to Samsung a year or so ago before being handed over to Seagate, the EARS drive is still doing pretty darn good, no errors on SMART.
(click to show/hide)Made the switch to Samsung however proved to be a bad choice, the couple of F3s that I have currently are slowing down quite a bit after over only 400 days of power on, SMART shows nothing unusual though. The WD greens have been running for more than 500 days and still manages to pull off it's average speed as it were new.
After the F3s I switched to black and performance was phenomenal, speed has never been better although it spins a bit louder during start up but that's OK.Now where do the Blues fit in? Had a few Blues running, massive earthquake AKA big boot to CPU case sitting on floor knocked out the Blues to the point of no recovery, however the older WD IDEs and Hitachi Satas installed were still running happily. Of course this was years back but I'm still paranoid in buying the Blues because of this.

kitamesume:
i got a 1TB WD Blue with me as a Torrent drive, purchased about a week ago and running for technically 24/7, the whole PC is moving back and forth from the living room and to my bed room for the past few days. no issues so far =O

i dont really care which brand of drives i get tho XD i rarely stumble upon dying drives for it to even matter *~*

Jelle458:
I have had multiple WD drives, and I am happy to say, I still have my Black drives, the green ones died while the black drives just continued to run.

I have also had a couple of blue drives, which, for some reason started to make a lot of noise, I haven't had the problem with the black drives yet, and they continue to work just as if they were new.

In my experience the black ones just keeps working, where both the green and the blue failed on me. I haven't had a single black edition drive that has failed.

megido-rev.M:
Green is virtually useless as a drive, meant for those who like to pinch every joule of electricity.


--- Quote from: xShadow on June 15, 2012, 03:30:45 PM ---
--- Quote ---There's no other brand/model that has a 5 year warranty and is designed as a main OS drive.  Period.  No other brand/model has reviews even close to the reliability of a WD Black in these price ranges.  Period.
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I want to see your sources. I will admit at some storage amount ranges the Caviar Black has superior reliability, but then again below the TB range (which is where most anime fans are going to be looking for their shit anyway), most other manufacturers (which are cheaper) have decent performance anyway. The TB range is where most anime viewers are going to be looking. If you can get me some hard review-based statistics, I'll agree with your Caviar Black lauding.

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Ooh, the provocativeness is strong in that one.

By the way, if statistics matter that much to you, perhaps you might want to perform some investigation yourself. That kind of information doesn't come out of nowhere, and often enough it doesn't naturally arise as long as nobody really cares to do so or the reward is nil. Opinions merely coming from the experiences of actual users of any kind are far more worthy than numbers. Being a numerically obsessed individual, I still assert that reliability measurements shall always remain theoretical even if they are simply a collection of numbers: probability is all relative and shit happens. Unintended witnesses are the best kind of feedback sources.

If you ever heard of 32-block PS1 memory cards, you should acknowledge lifetime far supersedes capacity.

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