WD Green vs Blue for movie and music storage? help needed

[g335]

Hello

Which is better for movie and music storage, a WD Green or Blue?

If I have a SSD with the main program(iTunes), but use the Green drive for store movies bought on the iTunes store, when it comes to play back, will the movies play back at the speed of the WD Green hdd or the ssd?

 

[BadAsAl]

Whatever you store it on determines read speed. So the computer will read at HDD speed if that is where you have your movies/music stored. However, should make no difference which drive you choose as HDD read speed is more than adequate to play movies and music.

 

[thekyle64]

it wont matter which drive is used

 

[Dunlop0078]

Movies are going to play at the same speed on a ssd or a hdd your not going to gain performance in your movies by putting them on a ssd lol. WD greens are good they are mostly used for servers because they are very power efficient a wd blue might be slightly faster and slightly more reliable both would work just fine.

 

[OriginalCadaver]

The movies still have to be read from the HDD unless you have something that caches them to the SSD then streams before playing, that would be silly though. Greens are great for storage and run cooler, the blues will have a bit faster access time. For what you're doing I think either would be fine, but would probably lean towards the blue.

 

[OriginalCadaver]

One other thing to note, the warranty is the same 2 years for blue and green drives, blacks have a 5 year warranty.

 

[g335]

Whatever you store it on determines read speed. So the computer will read at HDD speed if that is where you have your movies/music stored. However, should make no difference which drive you choose as HDD read speed is more than adequate to play movies and music.

So that means if I want to use the ssd to its full benefit I would have to store the program and the program files onto the ssd? (other than movie files)

Green or Blue would be best?

 

[OriginalCadaver]

Ideally everything would be stored on the SSD, your OS and often used programs should be stored on the SSD. The HDD should be used for less often used programs and bulk storage, movies, music, pictures...If money isn't an issue then yes putting everything on SSD would be faster, you're going to be dropping some clams though.

Fore green v blue, either will be fine, but I would take blue if the price was close.

 

[boju]

Streaming a Blu-ray file would go for roughly 60MB/s, both blue and green drives are 100MB+ so speed wise either is ok. Green is more energy conservative albeit when the drive gets to 75% full, the transfer rate will decrease to 60/70MB/sec. The blue will be slightly higher being an tier above and either will do a good job for your media drive.