WD Green drives turn blue
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WD is abandoning its Green drive branding, moving the Green drive product line into the Blue brand so as to have a single mainstream PC brand.
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The idea is to make it simpler to decide which WD drive brand you need for an application.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/28/wds_spectrum_shift_as_green_becomes_blue/ -
That's going to be SUPER confusing since Green and Blue drives are so different. So which is remaining, Green or Blue? What's the new drive going to be?
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The article is unclear as to what is actually happening.
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WD Green page: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=780
Fine print from ^- The WD Green hard drive functionality will remain the same. However, it will now have a WD Blue label with a slight change to their model numbers (ex. WD60EZRX will now become WD60EZRZ).
WD Blue Page (Green to Blue tab): http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=770#Tab8
EDIT: I'm still not 100% sure what to make of it. I'll have a better look at it later today
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Yeah, it sounds like the Green are being called Blue. So are the Blue going away?
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Doesn't look like it. From my initial research, I think it's just a rebadge from Green to Blue.
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@nadnerB said:
Doesn't look like it. From my initial research, I think it's just a rebadge from Green to Blue.
If you do that, where do the Blue go? The existing Blue must disappear, right?
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Blue 1 and blue 2
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RX is standard blue
RZ is eco green.Just look at the model numbers.
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@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?
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Why don't they juts rebrand the drives as a single color: Bluegreen.
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WD Aquamarine
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WD Slow
WD High FailureThat's what they should rename the lines to, makes it easy for the consumer.
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I'm still waiting for WD's SSD line "Bigger & Blacker"
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WD.... once you go Black.
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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 -
I've actually had very good luck with the Green, Red and RE drives.
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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.
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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-driveYouTube link from their very thin post:
Youtube Video
