What is the difference between the WD Colours - Blue, Red, Black, Green, Purple and Gold 2018
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0:35 = black
1:16 = green
2:19 = purple
3:57 = blue
4:50 = red
5:57 = professional colours
6:33 = gold
7:41 = hybrid drives
8:09 = older drives
Thank you x
@@nascompares no problem. I bought some reds, they seem totally silent.
Thanks!
are you want attention
Thank you! That was exactly the synopsis I was looking for! Now I know more than enough about all of WD Drives to build not only my high-end home NAS but enough for my business server(s) as well. I also am going to replace the hard drives in my Workstation with some better drives because apparently Black is what I should be using!
Thank you! That was perfect!
Good video straight to the point... I bought a cloud server box for 10 bucks off of let go because he bought the wrong thing and thought it was an external hard drive which I didn't need a cloud device I bought it just to pull the hard drive out of it put in my desktop it was a 2 terabyte Western Digital red Drive it had less than 2 hours on it total
Thank you!
I host a Jellyfin server in a computer at home, I usually keep my medias on a eSSD, but I really think that letting it run for days and days is going to broke it and my half a terabyte library is going to disappear, thanks for that video, I first wanted a Purple (it's suppose to run 24/7 so it was obvious to me) but the Red looks better now, even though it's going to be single and not raid, thanks a lot :)
So which one is good for archival type of storage. For long period of times?
Is WD black good?
Spot on
WD Red is best for NAS, I get that... What about DAS?... Would WD be considered the best choice for DAS as well? Please advise. As I am still reviewing between NAS vs DAS for my music/office setup... such as NAS via internet network or DAS direct to my USB Hub/MBP laptop 2015. Thank you
Platter density is a less discussed spec that interests me. Higher density increases reliability from less parts and less vibration.
COME UP FOR AIR (once in a while)
The TH-cam curse............machine gun delivery.........no mercy. The TH-cam settings cog to slow down to 0.75 and sometimes 0.5, I use all the time to lower my stress levels.
Plz tell me how to buy a same model hard disk... Just all wd blue internal hard drive are same or not...
How to buy a same model hard disk for my laptop...just wauching a Serial number or model number.
So as a media professional should I get black red or gold for my internal non NAS drives? This is confusing, because they all have 5 year warranties (at least RED PRO vs BLACK) , are as fast, and well reviewed.
for non-nas appliances you should get WD Purple. same reliability as WD Red at a lower price point. 5 year warranty as opposed to 3 year warranty is not worth the heavy premium IMO since a drive that lasts 3 years will most likely also last 5 years or longer. check out my main post about WD Purple!
I used Raptors back in the '90's.
I've got a SSD for my OS but I am using WD Purple as my secondary storage for games etc, this is a bad choice or?
It's not a bad choice but not a use-specific choice either. They are perfect as backup drives tho. Also you get better reliability and higher warranty than with WD Green or WD Blue at a lower price than WD Red, so with regards to that it's a good choice. See my main comment on this video for details!
So... what's the deal with the (phony ? 😮) book cabinet? At first I noticed some books that look very similar, but when you observe this more closely, obviously with a WD purple built for surveillance, you will notice that the book pattern, so the books in sequence repeat themselves on every shelf. Unless ofcourse, something is wrong with the Raid stripes on my wd purple nas! 😃
I have an orange....works with laptop, any help on commenting what this colour is for...? thx!
Do you mean Gold? Or the Re/Xe series? Or have you literally smashed an orange into your laptop? If the later... kudos!
@@nascompares funny :]
I'd appreciate if you take note of my main comment should you ever redo this video. A reply is neither expected nor needed, just keep it in mind whenever you talk about WD Purple please, thank you! :D
what color is used in WD external harddrives
it differs largely. WD Green in the worst case and WD Red if you're lucky. haven't heard about WD Purple in externals yet, but that would be even better. as for color, you often get so-called "white labels" which then are the color that's printed on it.
I have a 8TB WD Gold for art designs, photography and games, too much?
no my favorite voice BUT everything else and i mean everything else was perfect
Is WD Gold Edition ok for games?
@@omaufdxj446 i know that, but i purchased used one, that has been working for about only 10 hours. it is good bargain. isn't it?
SSD is best for games
@@omaufdxj446 i do know that the initial concept of buying a new hardware is "Never ever buy any used Hard ware especially storage" but i absolutely know the person whose the HD that i bought very well. he had bought the HD and few days later he wanted to sale it because he wanted some money and i took the opportunity to catch it.
@@fareseldokmak4865 yes, it's a bargain. it might be louder and vibrate more than a Red or a Purple, since it's made for heavy use in server racks.
3:00 This is exactly why I have been preferring the *WD Purple* as backup drives ever since.
3:15 It's not "strange" but quite common actually and in this distinct case the natural result of use-specific tuned firmware (and I'm not speaking of write failure tolerance _which is exclusively active when explicitly prompted through limited ATA commands by specialized software_ - a fact that entirely went over the head of all the ill-advised wannabe experts who try to scare potential buyers and urge them against deploying WD Purple for desktop use) which I could confirm myself by observing not[ice]ably higher sustained write transfer rates *and which is why you should have recommended them as backup media to your audience.*
WD Purple are just as reliable as WD red while running more silent, more smoothly and more energy efficient. You get the same (if not, for non-raid backup purposes, better) performance and the same warranty at a generally lower price point, a no-brainer for anyone _who actually thinks_ about it.
Tx!
Then again... after thinking about this for a while, it ocured to me that if you use the btrfs filesystem on your backup drives maybe Purple is not such a great idea after all due to the btrfs administratieve reads (and writes) such as with the btrfs-cleaner... I guess if writes are still dominant during btrfs administration then Purple would still be ok, but if not you may suffer an other performance penalty with btrfs on Purple...
@@OndrejPoppAgain, when I wrote this two years ago the Purples were just as good for rdesktop use as any other HDD designated specifically for that, if not better at least as the Greens, and barely different from the Reds which I also own and extensively tested it against. Differences in transfer rates and access times were negligible. However, since then things went downhill unfortunately - most Purple are relabeled crap HGST drives now, running so hot that it needs active cooling, making awful clicking noises constantly and rvibrating as hell. That's no defective drive, it's by design ... deeply disappointed with the WD802PURZ, will never buy again. Beware!
@@misatzuOk, tx again! I will then probably go for the Red plus 4TB which costs now 10€ more than the Purple 4TB, although I just need it for my desktop, no Raid Nas, so I would have gone for the Blue, but I guess since everyone is building their NAS servers for their maybe TH-cam video stuff, Red has become much cheaper than Blue...
@@OndrejPopp Weirdly the Red was slightly less than the Purples last time I bought some, but I still went for the latter because if anything they were running somewhat noticeably more silent (:
Red Pro vs Gold???
Yes iwont know red pro or gold
No grahic compare ? Underatand English
I had one of the black ones, but it broke down in 5 years.
Sorry to hear that dude. Did you claim a warranty repair?
@@nascompares When I bought the laptop, it had wd black in it. I bought the laptop in 2016 and the warranty was 2 years. Hdd broke down last week. 😞
@@h.ibrahimakkus If you're lucky you get an RMA from WD directly anyways ... just check your warranty status on the WD website beforehand:
a) if it happens to be a retail drive but NOT an OEM drive you get "IN LIMITED WARRANTY" (which sounds kinda bad but is good)
b) if it is an OEM drive you get "NO LIMITED WARRANTY" (which is bad)
c) if you get an "OUT OF REGION" status it's worth checking back with WD's customer service and ask for a status change nicely. you would have to provide proof of purchase tho, which in the past worked smoothly but has been a bit rough experience lately. they're not as kind anymore as they used to be, but still way better than any other HDD customer service.
@@misatzu production date 04 jun 2015. Out of warranty
@@h.ibrahimakkus if you bought it less than five years ago and have proof of purchase, you can let them update the warranty period so it counts from day of purchase. I do that generally with all WD drives I buy so I don't have to worry about it once I get into a similar situation
Are those fake books?
I believe so. Doesn't have that depth of field to it, just flat.
It's wallpaper. It keeps repeating
for gaming red or green?
Si Anak Magang black
For casual gaming one could get away with a blue but for serious gaming definitely get the black.
Purple for extended warranty like the Red at a lower price
Dude give me charts or something... You can find this info on use case scenarios on the WD site or Newegg.
no real difference in real world I still got my old wd from 3 years and bought a new one today
Colors*
Whats in your lips?
Why is this guy wearing lipstick?
I just realized that the British accent developed as a way to allow people with really bad teeth to have a conversation. I think that's a stereotype, but also true.
unrelated comments usually happen to be the best for some reason
It is torture to listen to you, can't you do review on proper English so people can understand you for a change?
It's a fair point. Also:
*in
*correct
*English,
*you. Can't
Funny, I can understand what he said clearly, and I'm not even a British.
BTW, greeting from SEAsia
I had no problem understanding him.
I'm hard of hearing out of my right ear n I understood him just fine
@@nascompares at least he didn't misspell "torture" (which I almost always do for some reason). also: there's nothing wrong about "proper English" and using the comma in the way he did. a semicolon would've been more appropriate though ... and even better than a period. since it's indeed a fair point subjectively, I would have used an exclamation mark! =)