Western Digital® WD Hard Disks Colors Explained

What is the difference between WD Hard Disks Colors?

CIATEC Staff
WD Hard disks colors Blue-Green

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:

Green- Discontinued

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.

 

 

 

 

Blue- Most Popular

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.

 

Black – High performance for users

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

 

Red – In love with NAS boxes

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.

 

Purple – The Surveillance Hard Drive

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

 

Gold – Enterprise Class Hard Drive

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.

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