![]() In this environment, a WD Blue is just no longer suited and though will perfect the job, will do so much slower and is susceptible to errors and potential HDD Failure. If you are looking at buying a brand new Synology NAS for your home or a beefed up QNAP NAS for your business, then it is paramount you get HDD Media that is designed to not only be ready for sporadic and irregular read and write (as your access to the NAS Server will differ constantly) but also Hard Disk media that is designed to be on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Possibly the most well know WD HDD Color we will talk about today, WD Red is the Drive you need for your NAS Server. The WD Red Hard Drive for NAS and RAID needs You should not use WD Blue in a RAID and is cheifly designed for everyday storage needs where Read and Write speeds are not paramount. Once these would have been recommended for use for your operating system inside a non mission-critical PC (general browsing etc), but now with the inexpensive of SSD in 128-512GB and it becoming ideal for your operating system, start up and primary apps, the WB Blue hard drive has been demoted to basic storage use. ![]() These are designed with low level access and long term use in mind. We start with the most cost effective and budget drive of all, the WD Blue HDD series. The WD Blue Hard Drive for Basic Desktop Use Below are each of the colours and what they are used for. Currently the WD HDD and SSD range can be broken down into 6 colours, and each corresponding intended storage environment (basically the machine they will go in!). So, now you know why Western Digital is widely regarded as one of the best HDD manufacturers in the industry, let’s delve a little deeper into what each of the colors mean. Once you know what each colour means, then you can pretty much narrow down ever WD drive easily. Rather than bombard users with ill formed part numbers and flashy names (that’s right, I am looking at you Seagate – what exactly is an ‘Ironwolf’?), WD have just stuck to a simple colour code system of Drives. Ever heard the expression K.I.S.S? Keep It Simple, Stupid! This is possibly the most important factor in WD’s structure these last 5 years or more.Likewise WD have Hard Drive that are tailored for intensive cold storage in data centers, as well as HDD that are designed for basic PC use and Desktops – this not only allows for grading pricing for consumers, but also that you are buying a tool that perfectly befits the task at hand. You wouldn’t use a hammer to screw an IKEA table together, you wouldn’t use a screw driver to paint a fence. ![]() ![]() En-devouring to make their products are designed with the task in mind, rather than a single HDD or SSD for all purposes.Pricing their products correctly so as to ensure that a home user can buy hard drive media priced in their budget that performs to that degree, whereas a highend business users has the option to pay more and get more.A lot of this success and market dominance is down to 3 factors. Western Digital have been in the hard drive and SSD market since the 1970s and I think it is safe to say that are one of the biggest and best storage media providers in the world. ![]() Understanding the difference between WD Blue, Red, Black, Green, Purple and Gold Hard Drives ![]()
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