Hard Drives: Green Vs Black

[Phube]

I'm at a loss to see what the difference is between the WD Green and Black 1TB HDs both SATA 6Gb/s. I see the Black has an rpm of 7,200 but not data seems to be around for the Green one.

One is more expensive, therefore I assume 'better', but how would it affect a PC to have one over the other?

Thanking you in advance...

 

[Junglemanchild]

Performance. The Black is optimized for performance at the expense of noise and power consumption, the blue is a general use drive, designed to be a good balance of performance, power consumption, and noise, and the green is designed to use as little power and make as little noise as possible at the expense of performance.

 

[Corfate]

The Black one is faster for booting up so i've heard Best one, which people seem to suggest to people speccing up a machine

 

[Phube]

Cheers, but what actual performance effect would that mean for the PC. In terms of gaming, internetting and photo editing?

And aren't they all running at 6GB/s??

I'm a bit confused...

 

[Teaz]

Not really much of a difference for their GBs as hdd dont really fully utilise all 6GBs so 3GBs is fine in the matter.

a caviar green drive has random spin times an doesnt have a constant spin like the caviar black so it uses less power as its designed to be energy efficient pretty much so they are more recommend as storage/backup drives and not really for boot up drive or for the OS. they can be used as the single boot up drive and such but they go a tad slow at times. Just go for the caviar black as the main drive. caviar green for the second or third+ etc etc

 

[Rakk]

Well, the green ones power down, and I don't believe spins up as fast as the Black even though it does have the ability to do so, its basically more energy efficient, eco-friendly and quieter.
Therefore green drives work very well as storage drives, but black ones work well as boot drives and a place for you games and most used stuff.

Note: this is what I think, it may be wrong!

 

[tom_gr7]

i think it has something to do with the greens, not spin when not in use or something, not quite sure, will do a google n check,

link for Black drive

link for green drive

 

[Fear]

I think the rpm for the green drives is 5400-7200 but you probably won't see anywhere near the 7200 rpm tbh.

 

[tom_gr7]

Here's what i found on google.

 

[Phube]

So are we saying it will make just a difference to the loading speed of games, and slow my start-up?

Or will it slow the PC down generally? Doing everyday tasks/photo editing?

 

[tom_gr7]

A green will be slightly slower, better for storage and uses low power because it doesn't spin when not used.
A black will be slightly faster os, programs loading up ect, but noisy.