Don't Buy The Wrong Hard Drive!
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*If you don't have time then start from here- **4:07*
Thanks a lot.
Thanks dude
Thanks,very helpful.would rate it 5/5
Thanks
Doing God's work :)
"Intended for this" "Intended for that"
Lou. Stats, numbers, values. Graphs, prices, fancy things. I want to know *how* these drives are designed for their intended purpose. For all we know they could have just slapped different stickers on the top of the same drives.
+Sharded Gem You can use any, they all work fine, some just work better at certain activities. If you're an average PC user, you wont notice any difference.
+CogniVision The question is still valid - WHY would any of the drives be better suited for a specific workloads.
(Ok granted - it is easy to understand once you look at the actual specifications - but this video didn't touch that at all)
+MeLikeBigBoom yeah thats exactly what i was about to post you read my mind !!
+MeLikeBigBoom Different cache's, different head deisgn, different seek times, different data density, different drive gemoerty, different drive controller, sata interface controller, buffer, spindle motor design, seek motor design. You think WD would just post that info publicly? Thats like sharing the secret sauce, but if you research, you'll figure it out fast
+MeLikeBigBoom Exactly good point !! No specs here, just repeating whatever it's on their website...
As someone who works in support for a NAS manufacturer,
*STOP*
*CALLING*
*RAID*
*A BACKUP.*
I wish I had a dollar for every idiot I've dealt with who thought their data was totally safe from corruption or their own dumb ass deleting something important, because they had it saved on a RAID and literally nowhere else.
That's correct. The "R" in RAID literally stands for "redundant." RAID was designed to keep a server's data available to its clients in the event of a drive failure, while an admin or a tech hot-swaps a new drive in and repairs the array. It's not so much a true backup as it is essentially a little safety net designed to not require taking a server offline.
This is essential for larger businesses that are being accessed by tons of clients at any given time, because downtime is extremely costly for them; but it doesn't protect from accidental deletion of data, malware, corruption, or any sort of disaster involving more drive failures than the RAID can handle at once. A versioned, offsite backup covers all of these scenarios.
Tl;dr any information that is important to you, your family, your business, etc. should be backed up whether or not you have a RAID, and having backups take priority over having a RAID (especially if you're a home user).
I suppose, but it's kind of a moot question because ideally RAID and a true backup should be used together no matter what RAID type you use. RAID 0 just increases the probability that you'll need to restore your stuff from a backup. SSDs also don't necessarily last longer than HDDs, either. They are less prone to failure in environments with extreme temperatures or physical movement, but outside of that their most worthwhile benefit is speed.
What are you raging about? RAID 5 is perfectly fine for backup. Like 16 drive setup with 4 of those drives reserved for redundancy. As long as you access it frequently there is no way you will lose data (short of a serious manufacturing flaw in the drives that makes a lot of them die at the same time).
Not true at all. RAID and backups are totally different things with different purposes. RAID is only meant to maintain uninterrupted access to your data when you need as little down time as possible when one drive (or more, depending on the RAID type you're using) fails. It can't do anything for unintended deletion of data, filesystem corruption, malware, physical theft or destruction, etc. Stuff like that is why backups are still necesssry.
Eli M Thank you veary much for that usefull information.
Didn't even had to google it thanks to you. ;)
This looks like a paid advert for Western Digital (WD).
+Lee Gibson it is
"Thanks to WD for sponsoring this video" -Description
advert is a stupid word. just say ad.
Aw. 📺Good public info vid. 😋💡
Well obviously, that's the first thing he said
WD Green is crying in a corner next to Jack right now #NoLove
WD is replacing green with blue
+THEASSOSIATION green sucks
+zZViperBoostingZz I would have it on 100% health after 10hour useage too :) the only thing matters is the hours not the years. I have a shitachi 320gb and it is on 98% after 1255days/30144hours thats more than 3 years in useage.
zZViperBoostingZz wow thats impressive :D
+zZViperBoostingZz still got 4x2tb greens as NAS-drives for about 4 years
:')
This is clearly a sponsored video. You should at least mention it in the description...
+CrusaderKnight "they asked me..." he says it in the video...
It's mentioned in the description :)
+CrusaderKnight it is mentioned in the description.
+CrusaderKnight It's in there, you just have to click show more, and actually read.
+Commodorefan64 At the time i made my comment it wasn't.
that weird screech at 4:38 scared the hell out of me, i live rural and was watching this at night. holy shit smh
Finn Barrett I didn’t hear one lol!
Finn Barrett unless you mean like the breathe of air exhale type thing lol!
Didn't anything...
hope your alive🙏
i wonder why black goes fast and has high performance.
Lol
***** the cops are purple.
datz coz black is a kaioshin in goku's body...
The way that's worded makes it sound like something else
Spectralite the black "Hard" drive goes in fast and the purple dildo is just fake.
Unbox Therapy's favorite Hard Drive --> Purple. Why you may ask? Visit their office bathroom and adjacent women's clothing store changing rooms for answers.
lmao
this comment needs more love
+tsnorquist I don't get it...
+DOGE™ unfortunate
+DOGE™ it's because it's the survelliance hard drive
You should do a video about Samsung's 16TB 2.5 inch solid-state drives.
wtfff link me m8
+andrew richardson sure but they prob cost $16,000
Sam Hawkins www.ign.com/articles/2015/08/19/16tb-ssd-could-be-released-by-samsung-next-year
I'm sure Linus will get his hands on that when it comes out.
+andrew richardson $10000 lololol 16tb
Every time I see a WD Purple drive, I get a sudden urge for some grape drink
purple drank!
hahaha
I want summa dat purple stuff!
Nah you gotta shove it aside and get somadat sunny d
IM NOT THE ONLY ONE 🔫🗿
What about green drives? you didn't mention them. They are pretty much pointless though. I think they are blue drives that spin at lower rpm and the heads park after like a minute or two of inactivity. It still would have been interesting to see them in this video
Same question from here!
Likely why they (a) aren't in this review and (b) appear the same as the blue: Greens were discontinued/rebranded as Blue :)
techreport.com/news/29251/western-digital-paints-its-green-hard-drives-blue-in-rebranding
TBH, I always had thought the Greens were always the 24/7, low power operation drives (akin to as the Reds are described), but there you go!
Edmund Leong WD Gold might me fast but not for a single user they are made for databases, where many usere's get one file. The WD Black is made for a single user to acess a file's.
He wasn't paid to talk about them that's why.
Are the Gold drives the successor to the 10k rpm VelodiRaptor drives?
"Or as I like to call it... The Donatello drive"
i won't
k
but whats with other Brands? For example Seagate or something like that
hey there
+Da Fappy no they dont count WD for the win!!!
I have an 80GB WD PATA from 2004 and it's still going strong since 2004. Very impressed by that little drive, and it's shows no sighs of failing
k
It would be funny if tomorrow your hard drive just fails horribly
+Paul Hojda What are the other hardware specs? What are you running a PATA drive on? Are you running an adapter to make it work with a SATA interface or do you have an add in PCIE card?
No, it's an old Celeron dual core 2.4 ghz with 4gb of DDR2 ram as far as i remember. I mean he uses it only for browsing and ocasionally using skype. I think i've put it together for about 75-100 dollars
+Paul Hojda I have a Maxtor DiamondMax 120GB Hard Drive that has also been going strong since 2004. It's been re-written with XP, Vista, and Windows 7 Home. It was in an Old P4 Northwood 2.4 GHz system now I have it in a Prescott 3.4 GHz with a Sata 1.5 180Gb Hard Drive as a back up. Old tech is a trip but it can still run if you take care of it.
Congratulations, you played yourself.
No
@@Galaxy_World 5 year late reply i like that 😂
@@harel6534 no
@@Gamer-xx7br
No
Won't have to worry about this myself, next drive I'll get is an SSD
+LopperUK damn it you're everywere
+LopperUK But you will still need a mechanical drive for videos, games etc. Unless your going with a tb ssd but it doesn't make sense for most people to dish out ~$340 for a drive. The next drive I'm going to get is a 500gb ssd so I could fit my steam library on it along with windows. With a 2 tb black I won't have to worry about storage for a while. You can get an 850 evo 500gb for $170. It's crazy how much the price of ssds has dropped.
***** I was basing my price off newegg's current listing. I should have checked pcpp first. My badness, I'll edit my comment.
Edit: As a side note, it's crazy that you can get a 1 tb drive for under 350. At this rate I might look into purchasing one for myself. Begone harddrive! :P
FATCAT9080 Gonna wait til the 1tb drives are cheaper and then get one.
Then you have to worry about micro-decay. It happens VERY slowly, but it happens. Google "SSD Decay" if you think I'm joking.
Why were Green and Enterprise drives omitted
?
Green is being replaced by blue
Except they're still WIDELY available for purchase across multiple retailers.
+ApaxGelfling theyre still being replaced. And most of his viewers arent what would be considered enterprise customers so no real reason to explain those
***** Yeah I mean, why give people the entire picture right? It would have added an entire minute to the video length...
ApaxGelfling thats not who his viewers are, so that wouldve wasted his time and ours.
So to clarify some things for anybody who might watch this in the future.
There are five types of Western Digital drives.
Blue is the most common being the standard.
Green which is supposed to be more power efficient but with slightly reduced speeds.
Black which is high performance.
Red which has high endurance for reading files.
Purple which has high endurance for writing files.
thanx. should i get a black one or a SSHD ?
@@DeanGrey a black drive is high performance but if you have the additional money a sshd has better performance and even when the flash part fails you still have a normal hard drive but it would be a 5400 RPM hard drive not a 7200 RPM hard drive it all depends on your particular use case
For Seagate users this is the counterpart of those hard drives in the video
WD = FireCuda
Blue = BarraCuda
Red = Iron Wolf
Purple = SkyHawk
For me Seagate is much better than WD because it is much cheaper and the performance is just the same. But if you are after the warranty go for WD.
i have green what the hack is that color for?
+Amin Momtaheni I believe green drives are refurbished drives
okay, nevermind. thanks. just saw the official documentation of the green drives :D
+Amin Momtaheni its their "ECO" drive i believe
+Amin Momtaheni it's blue without the ssd inside.
+Amin Momtaheni Its using low power consumption or we call it as friendly eco system. Probably same as Blue but its more cheaper because of the lower speeds. So the green more not for the gaming purposes but for the work stuff. (Sorry for the bad english)
what about Green ????
This video should be called: WD harddrive line up explained. This is just an ad for one brand presented as if it's your only option when buying drives.
Thanks to WD for sponsoring this video. its only wd that uses the colour coding. this is just about what the colours mean within wd products.
You forgot to mention heat. Drives in a NAS are close to each other and live in a very hot environment. That is one major reason why someone should have a RED or a PURPLE in a high temperature setting.
+NicolSD Vibration is an important factor, too.
Bobsofax64 Absolutely. Which is why I think Lou presented a rather limited view of the differences between the drives. There is a LOT more to a RED and a PURPLE drive than he let on.
+NicolSD It's almost like he said what WD would want to say. They don't need to advertise to people making servers with youtube videos.
+Adrien Rabino lol Well this is a paid adertisement, so yeah, he said exactly what WD told him to say.
+NicolSD noise nobody?
Why does my AdBlocker not work? (Western Digital Ad)
+Eagle Productions a joke stops being funny if you have to explain it.
I wanted to write : Because its you ! And then i readed every thing and was like well fuck you
+Juan Manuel D'Elía That was no joke. We should unsubscribe because UnboxTherapy only shows Ads (Remember the iPhone destruction test with the "amazing" Ford?)
Red is also really good to use as a storage disk for movies etc when you already have a faster drive that you are using for OS and other programs.
The reality is that almost every hard drive will work for almost every task. some hard drives just perform certain tasks better than others, but all of these hard drives could do pretty much everything that a hard drive is designed to do.
I got that Seagate Barracuda boys! Plus a Samsung SSD, cause PCMR ;)
+Aldwin Umali seagate is worse than WD
+Aldwin Umali had a barracuda. Died in two months.
***** yeah, I think that was the problem: I installed it into my 2010 macbook in hope for some more speed from the 7200rpm. But I would also say that all those high rpm disc are much less reliable, than more traditional ones
I have Samsung, wd, hitachi hdd's (4tb total), 500 GB Samsung ssd and 120 GB crucial ssd
MrTheTrafalgar I'm running 2, 1TB Seagate Drives and it's been great! no problems what so ever. Just make sure the environment is cool and you're set in my opinion. The speeds are actually faster than WD Blue and it's cheaper too I think
What if there's actually no difference between them? :o
Illuminati Confirmed
big business confirmed
apple also
Zack Butler I guess anti-vibration might be good for if you had a whole lot of them set up and the hybrid would be different. Volume and warranty shouldn't give the drive its own classification, especially as volumes change all the time and if the warranty expires, you can get a new drive for free but they won't recover your data.
As for the speed, I assume you mean rpm? Could make a difference I guess, but have no idea. My hard drive is 7200rpm (default choice was 5200, but seeing as the 7200 drive had four times the cache and was only £4 more expensive, I went for it) and it seems pretty zippy.
there are surprising differences - found out when I was building my pc last spring. I recall the Red Label even has extra metal bearings on the platter head or something to increase durability and reliability.
Is this a WD sponsored video. He should have put it in the title
I can see Orange drive coming up next from WD
COWABUNGA!!!!
95% of people buying a hard drive will be buying the same exact one. 1tb WD blue. Most popular.
1 tb wont even hold my anime collection
@@TheDakota37073 You mean porn collection right? I thought so.
@@jarhead4657 hentai collection
@@jarhead4657 naaaaaaaaa😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The 2TB seagate is pretty popular as well.
Who just realized they watched a whole 6min advertisement and somehow enjoyed it? xD
FrostyExchange didn't enjoy it.
Western Digital has more classes than these four, if your curious these should be all of them.
Blue = Mainstream non-specialized storage
Blue (scorpio) = Slim 2.5" Mainstream storage
Green = Low-power backups
Red = 24/7 Raid NAS storage (home server)
Red Pro = 24/7 Raid NAS storage (semi-pro server)
Black = Faster storage
Black (sshd) = Hybrid SSD/HDD faster storage
Black (velociraptor) = Content creation/games
Purple = Surveillance 24/7 video storage (semi-pro)
AV (bright green) = Video stream storage 24/7 (enterprise)
SE (Cyan) = Large quantity/scalable raid storage (enterprise)
RE (Yellow) = Performance / reliable storage (enterprise)
I know this is an old comment but would you recommend the RE ? I can't find any info on the lifespan of this disk, I want one for gaming/videos especially, I know its a good HDD for that but what im worried about is how long will it lasts, most of my WD disks lasted arround 8-10years
the reason im asking is that the RE is pretty cheap for a 4TB 7200RPM
Good thing that i searched this video first because i was going to take a WD-Red...instead of a WD-Black...thanks for saving my memory
Just a marketing gag to get to know more and saying "Hey, don't buy any hard drive, recognize us and remember WD when buying your next HD!" Let's be honest. We spend time in analyzing which CPU, graphics card, SSD and so on but the HDD is nearly the only thing in our system, we just bought as big and cheap as possible with a well known name on it. Only decision is the rpm. This colour thing is just for marketing. Be honest, is WD willing to say "Yes, the blue and black ones will break earlier than the purple ones?" No!
TheApp9 red drives vibrate less and get less hot but are slower , purple is for really basic 24/7 video files encoding , black is for gaming , blue is for regular storage
I Have a WD GREEN 1.5TB HDD. IT saves electricity xD!
not only though,a WD green has 60% less un-renewable of earths recourses than other drives. (don't mind my English pls)
Lukas Schmitz Thanks for the info :D I appreciate that :)
No wonder greens is dying for me :D
+Vaibhav kumar:
"I Have a WD GREEN 1.5TB HDD. IT saves electricity xD!"
==Does that mean it constantly parks the head? Fuck, I hate that. Click click click. I had a seagate drive in my Dell laptop that did that. Very annoying.
Tough its weird cause i still have my oldest drive in my system 1 TB Seagate Green 5900 rpm, it still works fine after 7 year torture. My WD 4 TB Green died in 4 months, smart still works and that load cycle count / head parking count is absurdly high 63k wtf..... I know Seagate failure rates are higher but no seagate drive has ever failed me nor internal nor external. while i have lost 60% of WD drives
hitachi HD's are legendary gods they refuse to DIE.
It's weird watching older videos of his. His intensity is dialed back like -500% here lol
Why is the label blurred? I'm sure it's for safety... but I want to know... why? xD
+Mac Was I asked myself that too. Those are probably only serial numbers, but why would you need to blurr them? It's not like someone can hack you or something with that info :-D
Maybe wants to hide the qr-code and bar-codes idk...
+pcfreak1992 people can use your serial number to call the company and claim your warranty. that's actually how I found this channel, looking for product reviews that the serial was visible. call me scum if you want but this was a long time ago and I do understand that this is wrong.
teejaye110
Ooook, thanks! :D
+muzosh bish pls
Warning, long comment, may cause headache. Avoid if lots of words scare you. Thank you.
I have this theory that a few years ago, in a boardroom for a mechanical hard drive company, they were sitting around and getting all depressed that SSD's were marching ever closer to making them irrelevant and one guy says hey! Why don't we put different labels on the same drives and say they're for specialist users like... ummm.... NAS! We charge more for each tier of colour!!! They all scramble and x months later, the REDS arrived. Then the greens, blacks, purples! Profits are going through the roof and no one suspects a thing.
Why would I come up with such a silly idea? Well it started when I went looking for information on those early RED drives for NAS and what exactly was making them more reliable. I'd been running whatever was the cheapest non Seagate drive with the most storage for years (currently running bog standard 4x3TBer's in my main PC case and they're on 24/7, they get hammered sometimes, other times not) So anyway, these reds, they looked like the same drive externally but then, they all do. All I could find was some notes about how the reds have extra dampening to reduce vibration. Now maybe I'm just a terrible researcher but that's when I got this silly idea in my head and that spidey tingling as other coloured drives came out for different intended uses when in fact, the original drive could be put to all those uses too. So here I am, several years into using the same kinds of desktop drives, a few have failed over the years but they had a backup so no worries, drive sent back, new drive arrives, I carry on. By the time they're out of warranty, its likely I'm moving up a bit from 1TB to 3TB and soon I guess 3TB to 5/6/8/over 10,000! Sometimes I continue to use drives out of warranty! I understand if you need some time after that shock.
Bottom line is, unless you want that tiny SSD shoe horned into a mechanical drive, the difference between the coloured drives is probably very real but I don't see it. So its like this aspect of faith has been injected into my tech life, you just have to believe in the REDS! Well I don't, not when my atheist non coloured sticker'd drive just carries on doing its job 24/7. If I need speed, I put it on SSD. Please feel free to crush my theory into bits with facts or just go ad hominem on my ass.
The end
+Clay Mann I actually agree with you, I do think that the purple and red drives are so overpriced.
WD's marketing team kinds of forced us into this color coding thingy, and I am not happy about it.
WD black is always hot as hell, and Green is way too slow for me to use, even as a secondary hard drive.
+Zhou Xiang Green's work fine for gaming because once the game has loaded, the majority of it has been stored in RAM for quick access. It's only the initial loading where you'll have an issue.
+Lucas Williams I found out when I first upgraded to 8gb of ram, this was years back, the drives I had then you could clearly hear them. I set them to turn off after one minute and after a while just doing my normal thing of browsing, opening regular apps, the drives would just never spin up. It was only when you needed to access something new. It amazed me just how much could be cached. And if you're sneaky, you can tweak things to prefer ram, point caches at ram and such. I'm sure you probably know all this, just airing that I kinda agree with you, most stuff ends up in RAM and that's the HD's out of the picture completely heh
+Clay Mann Not here to crush your theory, altough I'm not sure if you are right either. I use alot of WD drives with different color labels each their own specific task.
Reds in RAID for my 24/7 home server, Black velociraptor for data. Greens for backups, Yellow for hotswap and 24/7 downloads. At first switched them around trying to find out if the color class really matters, and for me it actually does.
Turns out Black drives are terrible for backups (to much noise, heat and always spinning) and Greens are really slow and going to sleep too often.
Reds do not have the performance black has, and yellow drives are damn expensive XD.
Spartan70 NL hey I really appreciate the info. I don't even really believe my own theory. I just think they did a poor job of really explaining the tech inside that is making it more suitable for this or that job.
So really hearing real people who have tested them in a logical and thoughtful way like you have is great information for me.
Got a bunch of reds in my system for mass storage, works just fine.
I got a blue hard drive not knowing if it's good for gaming or not (Because I'm building a gaming pc), but now that I watched this video, I found out way more than I should have. Thanks.
You read the pamphlet. Congratulations.
WD has a bad record to me..encountered too much failed drives..I have a Seagate barracuda 160Gb since 2008, that drive has lived through 5 versions of Windows..withstood a lot of ''beating the hell out of it'' physically..brown outs..used and abused, although it's quite slow already I'm still making use of it
That's odd. 90% of people say it's the other way around. Seagate has a significantly lower reliability rate than WD in most instances. Would I say Seagate make bad hard drives? Absolutely not. Hell, I own a Seagate (right price) but, given the option, I would probably still pick a WD on any given day - all other things being equal.
+Lucas Williams HGST is the most reliable google em.
+Darrell Ng opposite experience here. I have a couple 250GB WD drives from 2007 or so that have been used in some way their entire life. They're currently in a FreeNAS box in a zfs mirror hosting storage for my parents. I currently have a total of 11 hard drives in use, a bunch of different manufacturers. Out of three Seagate drives, I've had two start failing SMART tests. One was replaced on warranty, the other I haven't bothered to get around to since it is empty right now anyway. I've also had a Toshiba drive actually start failing. It was throwing tons of checksum errors and getting kicked out of the zfs RAIDZ2 it is in. From now I'm replacing drives with WD Reds.
+lts8709 I agree with you. My Laptop has 750 GB HDD from HGST and also my PS4 has 500 HDD from HGST.
+Darrell Ng I guess you're unlucky, I have FIVE WD hard drives since 2004, all work perfectly and still being used as a home media server.
Black = Enterprise grade drives that used intensively eg, Servers, you can also see this drives used in external drives.
Blue = Standard SoHo drives that you see commonly in desktop/laptop drives
Red = Used in NAS, thats it.
Purple = Used in security NVR or as well as NVR for your TV.
I remember when I bought a 2.5 IDE drive on Ebay and they sent me a 2.5 SATA drive.
When he panned down it looked like the two red drives were at the same height, perfect line up.
AND NOW THERES GOLD
Just here to throw out a warning.. NEVER buy a refurbished HDD!!! I got a Refurb WD black 2.0 TB for about half price. Felt like I was getting a deal. Boy was I wrong!!.. Immediately noticed a grinding sound during spin up.. Okay, no biggie, RMA'd it, replacement refurb unit seemed better.
Now, about 1 year later, I've got it all loaded up with programs and data, low and behold, I'm starting to get hangs.. Check the data and Boom. S.M.A.R.T. shows several uncorrectable sector errors with Caution warnings ID C5 and C6. Look up the warnings online, apparently indicative of a failing drive : (..
Now, with all the time wasted, and the daunting task of transferring all this data from this failing drive.. I'm wishing I would have spent the extra to just buy new.
1 year for used hard drive? That is not so bad when it comes to modern hard drives.
GamePlayShare Haha!! I know right. All this planned obsolescence filling up our landfills. Going to end up like Idiocracy or Wall-E.
bliglum Idiocra-C
OMG!, the same thing happened to me :(
Don't buy a SCSI drive for your home PC. Don't buy an M.2 drive if you don't have an M.2 slot. Don't buy an NVMe drive if your motherboard doesn't support it + you want it as your boot drive. Don't buy an IDE/ATA drive if you have a computer that isn't 10 years old. Don't buy 3.5" if you have a laptop, you probably don't want a 2.5" if you have a desktop, except for SATA SSDs. That's pretty much all you need to know. A WD Purple will work just as well in your PC as it will in a CCTV server. I personally have a 1TB WD Red inside of the very PC I'm typing this comment on, and it's been working great for more than 2 years.
........wow. very detail and informative. Fast and speedy behavior. Just wow. Im blown away.
My hard disk is grey. It is a Western Digital 20mb.
Yes. That is why I'm connected to ARPANET.
My very first hdd was also a 20 MB. Don't know the make, it was for my Amiga 500, and I never opened the case. I bought it used as a 10 MB, but when I came home, I found out it was actually twice the size I paid for. 😀
Some of my WDs are yellow. They are Raptors, 10k rpm and lots of heat, still 74GB
I'm just now upgrading a wd 160G to a seagate 2T And that felt like ancient history until I read this comment. Now I feel crisp and modern and young.
You're My Boy Blue!
Remember people, RAID IS NOT A BACKUP, RAID 1 for example is MIRROR, any viruses that go on one drive will be mirrored to the other. (just an example)
nice explaination
My case has 4 HARDRIVE slots.
I can use all of those four.
Pourn
Western Digital drives are great if you only need a drive that last two or three month.
Don't base the product solely from your experience. I have a WD Black Drive and it's still going strong after 2 years.
+BallsOnYaJaws You know you are doing the same thing, right?
+robni7 Not at all I'm just cancelling out his statement that WD drives are not reliable. He might've had a bad experience but one bad experience isn't an accurate representation of the whole HDD line that WD offers.
I will say it’s been about 10 years since I last used any WD Drive, there quality control may have gotten better in than time, but when I was using them I had around 7+ WD drives that have all failed in less than six months.
I know everyone has their own preference on drives I have a coworker that uses nothing but WD he has only a few problem, for me I go with Seagate I currently running 20+ drives. In 10 years I have had drives that were DOA and I would RMA them back and get a replacement other than that I have had 2 drives fail.
Hitachi 7200 rpm drives are statistically shown to be the most reliable in most applications, really surprised no other brand drives were even mentioned.
You forgot the Green drives that are low RPM, low sound and environmental friendly due to less power needed.
I've got about a dozen WD blacks I've accumulated over the years and once I got my first HGST NAS drive, it was lights out for the WD's. The HGST not only is built better and designed for MUCH higher operating hours before failure but also it's WAAAY faster when transferring data to and from the drive.
With a 6TB WD black and 6TB HGST moving an 8 gig bluray video file to and from my 950pro nvme drive, here's what they do.
WD writing the file to the SSD = 115 mb/sec
HGST writing to the SSD = 175 mb/sec
SSD writing the file to the WD = 120 mb/sec
SSD writing the fiel to the HGST = 200 mb/sec
So not only is the HGST faster (by a big margin) than the black but also 20 dollars cheaper. The HGST drive is just stupid fast for a platter-based 7200 rpm drive.
And Seagate isn't as "bad" as WD is with their BS marketing. WD was/is in trouble for falsely representing their "Red" drives at least in the past. Not sure if they "fixed" or the court made them compensate and fix it.
nice western digital ad.
now to the real part:
this is bullshit market separation without reason.
also stay away from western digital greens they are dirt plagued with issues.
one may ask why isn't western selling 3 hdd types.
one 7200 rpm one 5900 rpm and one enterprise grade.
all of them having access to change their software behavior like raid vs single drive use.
because they wanna fuck with u!
Greens don't exist anymore. They are now blues with a different letter in the model number.
didn't know that, so instead of getting rid of them one may deal with their issues in the "blue lineup"
well i'm done with wd drivers for good anyways not just the naming, but the load/unload cycle suicide drives are just such bullshit... i hope my hgst (now owned by western digital) megascale drivers will last and they were dirt cheap too, because being older enterprise drivers.
i would guess they got rid of greens, because they got known for being crap.
anyways thx for the info.
cataria pega my wd 320gb hdd works perfectly fine for 10 years straight
I just recently started watching your videos. This one being 4 years old you have improved tremendously on how you speak and catch a viewer. Good video bud thanks for the info.
Forgot the green drive, but realistically I care 10x more about which of these is more reliable for daily backups. All the speed in the world won't matter when it starts the death clicks.
all i have is WD40
Why did he blur out the text in the middle of the stickers?
They're probably serial numbers.
like it have any meaning.
VitaliiDaGamer they are still serial numbers not sure what you can do with a serial number of an HDD but if you want to go on the safe side always blur out serial numbers ;)
Claudio Zed You can uncover who, and were that particular drive was purchased by the serial number.
Better safe than sorry lol.. :-/ (though purchase logs are probably protected)
you can probably get try to claim the warranty. that's when they usually ask for the serial
All my WD Caviar blues got ants on them every summer. Happened to me twice, replaced it all with HGST drives.
There is one color you missed. WD Yellow enterprises grade storage.
I can't believe that a video like this, linked on the official WD website, still makes one of the most common and stupid mistakes. Don't call a raid a backup. A raid is *not* a backup. All that a raid does, is giving you protection against drive failure, so that your system keeps running. A raid does not replace a proper backup. So please stop calling it a backup.
Except when you choose a Raid 1 setup which essentially IS a backup while providing the redundancy
What about green
its k
+Sam Smith Energy saving and quieter, little less performance.
+Prometheus Hippopotimi is that a rare rawb picture?
SlenderSmurf, Sentinel of Sequels indeed it is
sweet
I thought blue was for speed and black was for protection from things like shock, vibration and endurance
I am using a 4TB purple WD drive as data drive in my desktop. Using an SSD as C drive. I am very happy with the performance of purple drive. It's rugged, provides 3 years warranty. Don't find any problem playing 4K videos stored in this purple drive. I know this purple is meant for surveillance (writing and overwriting of data). Yet, I find it's more reliable than WD blue. Don't want to compare it with WD Black (comes with 5 years warranty) as black is almost 40% more costly. As per price to performance ratio WD Purple rocks.
can i have the black one?😆
Lalaine Pulig yeah!!
why not ask Linustechtips to come down and set your network for you. He well do a great job and you both well get videos for doing it, and it well be fun.
The Donatello Dri- Oh i get it.
In my country, Nas means Nose."Uh yeah, I will store those files in my nose"
i got a 50GB drive lol
My phones 128gb 😂
+JoshDoesEverything My first HDD had 57 MEGA Bytes... Those were happy days :D
+JoshDoesEverything have a 550mb drive that still works, havent used it in a while since parallel ATA ports are now obsolete
+JoshDoesEverything The drive on my main machine is 40gb
Green is missin :( noone cares about environment.
Blue Jacket check.
Black T-Shit check.
You should wear purple cap, and red glasses frame.
This was very useful for picking the hard drive.
WD GREEN MASTER RACE
lol
Wanna be a famous youtuber ?
1. Be a white male
2. Bald
3. Never shave your beard
because so many famous youtuber looks the same.
General Razor El Gato you know, Matthew Santoro, Vsauce, this guy, Tech of Tommorrow, and many others "White bald never shave men" youtuber with 1 million + subscribers.
***** Hillary no longer a problem, she lose the election.
IndraEMC
hillary
cuck
Fucking shit
It really hurts.
I have to second all the commenters who are saying that this sounds blatantly like an ad for WD. You've not mentioned RPM, number of platters, read / write times for sustained or random reads, seek time, buffer size, MTBF, nothing! This is just marketing material "intended for" blind consumer usage, not for the power users who would actually use these drives themselves.
I wonder how much storage he was given to do this video....
lol, jokes on you. they are all exatally the same internally, they are doing the whole different color for idiots marketing. the boards have different firmware to trick you.
just buy wd raptor, can't go wrong! (sarcasm expressed)
Hubert, the firmware is here to create an artificial segmentation. Except for the RPM differences, the power and acoustic management settings were all changeable 15 years ago. Just look how much a program like hdparm is capable of tweaking.
You don't read. I told you that these optimizations were previously available to consumers. A lot of your examples weren't different products before firmware segmentation was a thing and in fact most of them are just different AAM and APM tunings.
Except SAS/Sata connectivity, form factors and rotation speeds, there is no point to have all of those different range of products.
And yeah, optimization for a workload and reliability… let me joke. So why the head parking was set to the minimal 12 seconds on all 3.5" Desktop WD Green ? And why that problem was only resolved by the consumer's use of an old x86 DOS program ?
Instead of trying to discredit me, why don't you try to convince me ?
Those API settings are totally part of the firmware : Their purpose literally is to command optimizations for specific uses. Firmware differences are just a matter of what is the hardcoded default configuration.
If you expose even more settings, like Hitachi did, you have absolutely no reason to make so many product lines. And those HDD manufacturers can totally provide some explicit presets for non-techie consumers.
As I said : If manufacturers think there is some risks they wouldn't take, they can still provide a tool with different presets instead of that marketing bullshit. With that, the consumer can buy a bunch of the same HDD to serve different purposes. Taxing some uses is just the effect of too few concurrency and strategies of copying the worst concurrent because consumers don't use their power of boycott.
And if you don't try to discuss properly, just don't reply on comments doing condescending claims. That's not helping your point of defending manufacturers' behaviors.
gotta love non-tech people reading marketing material
"You're my Boy Blue!"
What I would like to know is what is mechanically different between the drives, what makes a "datacenter" drive and "surveillance" drive different.
the color of the label
Ok sir
is it just me or does he look very high? he's very chilled today
Did he really say "backup" about mirror raid? Jeez... someone teach this guy that RAID IS NOT BACKUP!
man I only use those hard drives for media like pictures and shit.
THANK YOU!!!!
This was useful, I'm taking IT classes through all of high school and this is something I had no clue about, thanks bro
If you go for reliability in RAID arrays, don't use drives from the same series. If you buy 2 of the same drives at the same time and use them the same way, chances are that they will fail at the same time.
I personally use different brands (Toshiba, Seagate, WD, Hitachi) on the same array (RAID-Z) just to make sure. Interestingly, the first to fail was the WD.
Note : I use the cheapest level on all brands, so it was a WD green, I am a proponent of the "I" in RAID as "inexpensive".
This guy just casually has 21TB worth of hard drives in his desk
@BEN 1891 Please stop hacking me whoever you are. Look, I have a lot of text documents. HOW THE FUCK DID YOU KNOW? Please let me live a normal life. Who are you
tnx lou. ordered the blue one
I do not class raid one as a backup. Raid one should only really be used for redundancy. Raid mirrors one hard drive to another so that you can continue to have availability even if a drive fails. Don't get me wrong, if one drive fails you data will still be available like a backup however, if an error occurs that corrupts data on even deletes data on a hard drive then you have the possibility of mirroring that onto your second drive.
Damn, my computer is technically a leg air conditioner.
Part of the argument for SSDs is that harddrives are loud and hot. The WD green is neither, making it the only option for me. SSD for performance.
TBH, this video helps me a lot. because i got a puple hdd, i've been a lot of doing research so i came here. gonna use this Purple 1Tb HDD to our CCTV DVR. Anyways, Thanks to @Unbox Therapy for making this video!