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WD Blue vs Black: Reliability?

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megido-rev.M:

--- Quote from: Sakura90 on June 15, 2012, 12:48:26 AM ---Yes, indeed. And more in my country where most don't gives a fuck about customer service <_<

When you say "manufactured with their best parts" I guess it means Blacks have a less % of failures...


Mhm... now I don't know what to do. I have a Seagate 7200.14 (ST500DM002, SATA 6 Gb/s, only 16MB cache) as system drive. I can't find any reviews of the 7200.14 line though, much less a comparison to the Blacks. Still, I don't use the PC for anything that requires speed, seeing 1080p is the most I do.

Should I replace it with the Black? I heard they are noisy (that IS a problem for me, for a system drive @ 24/7). Lol, maybe I should just keep the Black and compare the two myself (I don't want to open the sealed bag it came in, that way I can sell it as perfectly "new").



P.S.: Anything but magnetic is useless to me, as I have ~300GB for seeding. Plus the downloads, for me is all size and reliability, speed is non-important. Even noise has a higher priority for me :P

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Well, having hi-grade parts generally means longer lifespan (or how I actually care, how long it stays 'pristine', which implies lifespan), aka greater overall operation. As for noise, I don't notice anything coming from it, inside my tower right next to me.

Also, I almost always require some reviews for critical components such as drives, otherwise the only data, or lack thereof, for such comes from advertisements (which obviously never disclose negative aspects).

vuzedome:
Well as they say, once you go black you never go back.

megido-rev.M:
I think in the case it would be "black by popular demand" :laugh:.

Freedom Kira:

--- Quote from: datora on June 15, 2012, 12:32:42 AM ---.
The Black edition (of both Caviar 3.5" and Scorpio 2.5" form factors) is THE premium Western Digital offering, manufactured with their best parts.  They come with a 5 year warranty, vs. the others with 3 years or less.

The Black drives are intended to be OS drives, where they experience constant read/write and are powered on almost continuously.  The performance gain is usually due to being SATA III (6.0 Gb/s), and 7200 rpm, where the other drives might only be 3.0 Gb/s &/or 5900 or 5400 rpm.  (caveat: some older Black Caviar drives are SATA II; I have a couple of those, but they aren't manufactured anymore.  Also, the Black Scorpio drives often still come in SATA II but, again, WD is halting production of those in favor of SATA III).

Black drives usually have larger cache, usually 32 or 64 MB these days, while the others may only have 16 MB.  So, yes, Black editions outperform Blue & Green editions under just about any imaginable condition.  The Scorpio notebook drives in Black might only be 16 MB, but that's changing.

You got a pretty spectacular upgrade.  There are higher grade WD drives, but they are industrial/server class and very expensive.  Be happy; WD customer service did a really cool thing for you.  :) 8)

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Hmm, WD Black isn't quite industrial grade, if I recall correctly. They're WD's top-of-the-line consumer line though, for sure. Their RE4 drives are their industrial line, and cost a heck of a lot more than WD Blacks. I know RE4 has the 5-year warranty but I didn't know that warranty period also applied to Blacks.

Saras:
Seagate 7200.14 is from their Barracuda line. In other words, an eco high capacity drive. They are comparable to the WD greens.

As something to be used for the primary OS drive. There is no competition, go Black.

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