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Western Digital Green vs Blue?

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DrewSG3

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It's been awhile since I've had to buy a new hard drive, but for as long as I can remember the WD Green drives have been cheaper, so why are they more expensive per TB then blue?Right now a 4TB Green drive on Amazon is $171, A Blue 5TB is $169

Just need a storage drive for media as my hard drive is probably gonna die any moment.
 
I'd consider both the Blue and Green series to be relatively low end as far as performance goes. Grab the 5 TB Blue.
 
Probably because the WD Green drives have been discontinued. Recently-discontinued hardware gets marked way up by online vendors, on Amazon especially.
 
DrewSG3 said:
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Hi DrewSG3 🙂

As the guys explained, we've discontinued the WD Green line and have integrated it into the WD Blue line. All the 5,400 rpm WD Blue drives can be seen as revised and improved versions of the WD Green drives. 🙂

For your type of usage a regular WD Blue should suffice so I'd say it is a viable and a good option. If you need more info on this feel free to ask 🙂

Cheers,

Captain_WD.
 
It might also be a PR thing. Very early WD Green drives had a head park issue that was dealt with by WD via firmware, but it couldn't stop all the negative attention that followed. Then there was the NAS boom, where people were stuffing these drives into RAID arrays then got all mad when the drives failed in spite of the fact that these drives were not made for that. I think the WD Red series was a direct result of that.

I have no reservations about either Green or Blue drives for non-RAID data storage.
 
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