The Blues...:/

[Brado78]

I don't know squat about marketing, but wouldn't it be a VERY good move on WD's part to build 2 and 3 TB Blue Drives?.. I know I would buy them...What do you guys think?

Thanks, Brad😀

 

[Soulkeeper]

I personally have no interest in the blue line.
I see them as a budget solution for businesses and average joes that don't know/care what drive they get (ie: $ above all else).

 

[StinkyPinky]

I personally have no interest in the blue line.
I see them as a budget solution for businesses and average joes that don't know/care what drive they get (ie: $ above all else).

Seems harsh. WD only seem to have large capacity 7200rpm drives in the noisy WD black line.

 

[Blain]

I personally have no interest in the blue line.
I see them as a budget solution for businesses and average joes that don't know/care what drive they get (ie: $ above all else).

Seems harsh.

Seemed like a pretty reasonable conclusion to me.

 

[Phynaz]

No large capacity Blue's is why I switched to Hitachi.

 

[Smoblikat]

Seems harsh. WD only seem to have large capacity 7200rpm drives in the noisy WD black line.

I have never in my life experienced noise from a hard drive that wasnt completely drowned out by any of the other moving parts in my computer. I have run many RAID WD blacks and velociraptors, and would never consider them "noisy".

Blue drives are just the middle of the road HDD, they arent meant to be fast like blacks, and they arent meant to be dedicated storage drives like greens. Their capacities reflect their relative performance level, they are just intended to be a hard drive you can use for everday average Joe type stuff.

 

[greenhawk]

The crappy rate that the blues increase in capacity is one of the main reasons I run only blacks.

greens / eco drives are just too slow for my liking, even as storage drives when in a system. (side note: noisiest drive I had was a sea gate green drive)

I have not bothered trying any other 7200 drives as a program / bulk storage drive as I always seem to find some reason not to use them.

I was a raptor user for a while, but SSD's are cheap enough to forgo the raptors, especially with the lower capacity of both, it just makes blacks all the better choice for program/ short term bulk storage. (note: i have a lot of greens for longer term bulk storage, but they are all DAS setups that are powered down most of the time).