WD green or black

[panos381]

Hello, I want to build a pc and I don't know weather to get a WD caviar green or black. I also want if anyone knows to tell me the power that they use. For example what diference would they have on booting?

 

[someone755]

The power difference between those two are small. Not even a watt.

The Black series is performance-oriented, while green is cheap, but slow. Blue would be some sort of compromise between price and performance.

 

[Sevenater]

The WD Black will be way faster then the green, green is meant to be a storage drive more then a boot drive. You will boot and open programs faster if you use the black. Hope this helps!

 

[IRONBATMAN]

Caviar Blue. You won't see a big difference between Blue or Black. They both run 7200 rpm but read and write speeds are a little different. Caviar Green runs around 5400 rpm , but Western Digital doesn't specify.

I have the WD Caiar Blue , Steam , Chrome, iTunes, and 20 games in it, and my PC boots in less than 20 seconds.

 

[dextermat]

Take the black, they are about 30 % more expensive, but are much better quality.

I have 8 year old 500 Gb Western digital black and no bad sectors on them or anything .

Also 5 year warranty is a great thing if it would ever become defective.
If your on a budget, get the blue.