What is difference between WD HDD?

The Western Digital Blue is the hard-disk drive (HDD) built for the desktop, while the Black takes things to the next level for professionals and gamers. Enterprise and server owners have the Gold series to look through and the Red series of drives are specifically designed for NAS use.

What does the WD colors mean?

Each of color can represent the application that HDD fits. WD HDD Color Differences – Blue, Green, Black, Red, Purple: WD Green HDD. Green HDD: low noise, suitable for home usage, HDD for file downloading, its advantages including lower heat, more quiet, more eco-friendly.

What is MTBF in HDD?

Hard drive manufacturers like to claim that their disks are extremely reliable. The main reliability measure used of hard disks is the mean time between failures (MTBF), and typically this is quoted as being somewhere between 100,000 and 1 million hours, or between 11 and 110 years.

What color of WD is best?

WD Blue HDDs are mainly used for general purpose storage, they are great all-rounders, and an average user can’t go wrong with Blue. WD Green is basically same as Blue, but it lacks a bit of performance. However, it is the most eco-friendly HDD, and it’s quite cheap.

What is MTBF in SSD?

The Mean Time Between Failures, or MTBF, for this SSD is listed as 1,500,000 hours. That is a lot of hours. 1,500,000 hours is roughly 170 years.

How much faster is SSD than 7200 rpm?

A typical 7200 RPM HDD will deliver a read/write speed of 80-160MB/s. On the other hand, a typical SSD will deliver read/write speed of between 200 MB/s to 550 MB/s.

Is 100 TBW SSD good?

If you are light user with an average of 30 GBs of data written per day and not much data to store, then a 100 TBW disk will technically be good for 3413 days or 9.35 years!

How long will a 600 TBW SSD last?

A TBW of 600 with a usage rate of 9.25TB/year (half of the 18.5 I used in two years) would indicate 64 years of life left.

Is NVMe really faster than SATA?

Speed. NVMe drives are faster than SATA drives. (This is true even if both SSDs are in an M. 2 form factor.)