WD Green drives turn blue

Deleted74295

RX is standard blue
RZ is eco green.

Just look at the model numbers.

scottalanmiller

@Breffni-Potter said:

RX is standard blue
RZ is eco green.

Just look at the model numbers.

For starters, that is the most confusing thing ever. But are you sure? They made a point hat the existing RX drives are switching to RZ drives. So to make things even more confusing than changing the name of Green to Blue they are going to make the Blue drives have the Green product labels?

dafyre

Why don't they juts rebrand the drives as a single color: Bluegreen.

scottalanmiller

WD Aquamarine

coliver

@scottalanmiller said:

WD Aquamarine

I would totally buy that brand!

Jason

WD Slow
WD High Failure

That's what they should rename the lines to, makes it easy for the consumer.

MattSpeller

I'm still waiting for WD's SSD line "Bigger & Blacker"

scottalanmiller

WD.... once you go Black.

brendan pitstop nz

perhaps WD have realized that their "green" drive got so much flak for being - crap - they are trying to rebrand - again
green = slow, slow and slow
blue = rubbishy
black = the only one you should buy
who knows what will happen next. they should just go back to making decent drives, instead of cheap rubbish

scottalanmiller

I've actually had very good luck with the Green, Red and RE drives.

Reid Cooper

WD Green are slow, no doubt. But I don't know of anyone who has had issues with them. Of course, being slow, they are generally more reliable simply due to the fact that they do not have to move as fast and will not wear out as quickly.

nadnerB

Just in case any of you were wondering, the WD vendor page on SW posted this:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1265694-don-t-buy-the-wrong-hard-drive

YouTube link from their very thin post:
Youtube Video

nadnerB

Just putting it out there, WhatzHisFace (chap in the video) mentions RAID 5 in a positive manner for spinning rust drives.

Dashrender

@nadnerB said:

Just putting it out there, WhatzHisFace (chap in the video) mentions RAID 5 in a positive manner for spinning rust drives.

headslap

scottalanmiller

WD's own devices use RE drives in RAID 5.

nadnerB

@scottalanmiller said:

WD's own devices use RE drives in RAID 5.

I'd still pass.

scottalanmiller

@nadnerB said:

@scottalanmiller said:

WD's own devices use RE drives in RAID 5.

I'd still pass.

Yeah, it is less than an ideal design, especially when they could easily have made R6 and R10 options.