Western Digital® WD Hard Disks Colors Explained
What is the difference between WD Hard Disks Colors?
Did you know that Western Digital® (WD) hard disks come in many colors?
Other than I/O type, size and speed of hard disk, Western Digital (WD) adds another attribute; the Color. So what are these hard disks colors, what is the difference between them and what is each color best used for:
WD Hard Disk Color: Green
WD Green hard disk is no longer in production. WD merged green and blue hard disks product lines in October 2015.
WD Hard Disk Color: Blue
This is probably the most popular color in WD hard disk family. Suitable for everyday computing people who are not looking for something special in a hard drive. A laptop version is also available of this drive called “Blue Mobile”.
+ Current available specs: Size: 500 GB up to 6 TB, RPM: 5400, 7200, Cache: 32, 64 MB.
+Affordable price.
– Low in performance.
WD Hard Disk Color: Black
Enterprise edition hard drive, suitable for enterprises requires high-end computing servers for applications such as video editing, rendering and high performance gaming console. A laptop version is also available of this drive called “Black Mobile”.
+ Current available specs: Size: 500 GB up to 6 TB, RPM: 7200, Cache: 64 MB, 128MB, 256MB.
+ Comes with 5 years warranty
– High noise and heat
WD Hard Disk Color: Red
This is the NAS storage version of WD hard drives. WD also used to produce a WD Red Pro version but it is also discontinued.
+ Current available specs: Size: 750 GB up to 10 TB, RPM: 5400, Cache: 16 MB, 128MB, 256MB.
+ Comes with 3 years warranty
– Optimizes Read performance over Write performance.
WD Hard Disk Color: Purple
WD Purple hard drives are built for surveillance systems with supported workload up to 180 TB/year.
+ Current available specs: Size: 500 GB up to 10 TB, RPM: 5400, Cache: 64 MB, 128MB, 256MB.
+ High work load
– Expensive
WD Hard Disk Color: Gold
This is the elite version of WD hard drives, built with HelioSealTM technology, for high work load enterprise class reliability storage.
+ Current available specs: Size: 1TB up to 12 TB, RPM: 7200, Cache: 128MB and 256MB.
+ High work load
– The most expensive among the whole WD hard drives family.
Those were 6 colors or types of hard drives produced by Western Digital, if you’re still not sure what to choose, let us know in the comments.
