sonyzz :
Hi everyone, I want to buy WD Blue 6TB 5400rpm and replace my WD Green 3TB 5400rpm drive which is in WD Elements Enclosure as i originally bought it, then put that 3tb drive inside my pc... but i see that buying external drive "WD My Book 6tb" is about 20 dollars cheaper than buying WD Blue 6TB, but it might have WD Green drive inside, and as we know blue line should be better than green line, so for which one should i go? for External 6tb or for internal 6tb? And what about 3.5" external line are usb pcb is soldered to the drive like it is on 2.5" external drive?Because my WD Elements Desktop USB 3.0 is about 2 years old and it still has normal 3.5" drive and detachable usb pcb
The WD Green-Blue designations have changed.
See this:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2801025/difference-wd10ezrx-wd10ezrz.html
(this from the WD Rep)
"Sorry for the late reply!
The disclaimer on our website is correct. WD Green is going to become part of the WD Blue family However, the WD Blue will be split into two separate RPM classes: 5,400 RPM-class and 7,200 RPM-class.
The old WD Green will fall into the 5,400 RPM-class drives, but yet all its features will stay. However, we won't be calling them 'IntelliPower-RPM drives' like we did till now, but instead you'd know what RPM class the HDDs belong to.
This change is intended to simplify the HDD selection process when you're planning to upgrade your storage. So basically we're just consolidating our mainstream PC product offerings to only the WD Blue family. All current WD Green capacity, cache and form-factor configurations will remain available through their lifecycle, but under the WD Blue brand."