Depends on what you are using your NAS for. I mainly use mine for media and document storage so I use the green drives.
For a desktop, I honestly wouldn't consider a spinning disk any longer and would just add another ssd. -- gs On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 10:02 AM Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > The last time I bought a hard drive was nearly 8 years ago now, and my > little storage server just had a failure so I was shopping for a couple > of new disks for it. I've heard a lot of people really like the WD Red > drives, which are "designed for NAS," whatever that means. I am hard > pressed to find any drives that are 4 TB or larger that are 7200 rpm. > Seems like everything is 5400 rpm. Does this even matter? With the > bigger drive sizes are they back to using multiple platters and heads > such that the seek and transfer time on a 5400 drive? is still better > than any older 7200 rpm drive? > > Finally, for a desktop machine, would you go with a WD Blue drive? > Although with the price difference of a Red drive is just a few dollars, > would that be a good choice for a desktop computer? > > thanks, > Michael > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
