What do the colors of WD drives mean?

Currently, the WD has Green HDD/Blue HDD/Black HDD/Red HDD/Purple HDD, also the Enterprise grade HDD. Each of color can represent the application that HDD fits. Green HDD: low noise, suitable for home usage, HDD for file downloading, its advantages including lower heat, more quiet, more eco-friendly.

What’s the difference between WD colors?

WD Blue and Green are used for the general purposes of storage, with Blue being slightly more reliable and Green being more eco-friendly. WD Black is for pure performance in media, gaming, and content creation. WD Red is for network-assisted storage. It is designed for (and only compatible with) NAS systems.

What is the difference between Western Digital Blue and Red drives?

WD Red hard drive is built-in SATA 6 Gb/s interface with the 3.5-inch form factor. The WD Blue hard drive is also built-in the SATA 6 Gb/s interface. However, it provides two different form factors which are 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch.

What is the difference between blue and Green Western Digital?

Main Differences Between Western Digital Blue and Green SSD Green SSD comes in a capacity of 120GB, 240GB, 480GB. Western Digital Blue has a sequential read up to a speed of 560MB/s. Green SSD has a sequential read up to a speed of 545MB/s. Western Digital Blue has an interface of 3D NAND SATA technology.

Is WD Red better than WD Black?

The WD Black Drive is most suitable for aggressive PC use such as: Accounting, Video Editing, Rendering, and Gaming. The Western Digital Blue Drive Series is best used for basic computing. This includes browser usage and word processing. Red Series is the best choice.

What is WD purple for?

Today, the company unveiled its WD Purple drives: A class of hard drives that WD says is optimized for mainstream video-surveillance applications. The drives are designed to be installed in table-top surveillance systems with 1 to 8 drive bays that support 1 to 32 IP surveillance cameras.

Why is WD Purple?

WD Purple is Western Digital’s surveillance class storage. These drives are suited for 24/7 usage and the firmware and caching algorithms are optimized for write intensive applications, as these drives spend most their service life writing.

Is the Western Digital Blue Good?

WD Blue’s primary advantages are: Higher speeds – 7200RPM makes it ideal for primary drive and gaming use. Highest density – best cost-to-performance ratio and speed, even over WD Black. Relatively quiet for the speed.

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