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Bob

12:18 AM

@gparyani Blue is pretty typical consumer, Green is more budget

Hennes

It is? I thought it was more low power oriented. Not perse cheaper or budget

bwDraco

@gparyani Eh, I once had a gaming laptop that shipped with a WD Black laptop hard drive.

WD makes the following drive classes for consumers:

- Green: low-power, value client
- Blue: mainstream client
- Black: high-performance client
- Red: consumer and small-business storage server (NAS)
-- Red (base): SMR, up to 8 drives (not recommended for heavier usage or advanced RAID configurations)
-- Red Plus: CMR, up to 8 drives
-- Red Pro: CMR, up to 24 drives, higher performance
- Purple: Surveillance and streaming video content

Enterprise-class drives for datacenter use are sold under the UltraStar brand, formerly under HGST (which is now part of WD). These are not intended for consumer use, and AFAICT WD does not even allow consumer-oriented retailers to carry them.

That said, if you need cheap high-capacity (8TB+) drives, you can get some external hard drives and dismantle the enclosure to pull the internal drive inside (a practice called "shucking"). Note that these drives are not made to the same standard as Red Plus/Pro drives and are usually SMR in newer enclosures.

Hennes

12:57 AM

I should check what I have as old drives. Something I forgot 10TB in the NAS,
and a simple seagate desktop in my main desktop

The name in this case fits :)

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Bob

9:31 AM

@Hennes For HDDs yea, but Green SSDs are just budget

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Hennes

6:54 PM

Ah. I did not consider that distinction