1TB WD Caviar black or green?

[armysgt1]

I'd rather have better performance than save energy. Are the caviar blacks really that much better than the green or blue?

 

[Cromewell]

Blacks are the most expensive but they aren't so much more money than a green or blue.
Low Power - Green
Medium Power - Blue
High Power - Black

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/...compare,1024.html?prod[2365]=on&prod[2363]=on

That's just a green vs black, seems they didn't test any blues. $100 for a 1TB Black (newegg) sounds like a decent deal to me

 

[Shane]

Id go with the Black,When my 250Gb seagate was been RMAd, i was using my 500Gb wd Green as my primary drive.....very slow.

 

[voyagerfan99]

If it's gonna be a primary drive, go Black. If it's just for an external, go green or blue.

 

[brokenbells]

Like anyone's said, go black if the money isn't much more.
I have a 1tb green as secondary, and that's still slow for my taste, i'd honestly invest the slight power and for sale price into it - it'll honestly bottleneck you if you're transferring masses of data badly (as in backups, multiple movies, legally acquired 300gb of music, etc.)

 

[Drenlin]

In terms of speed, Black>Blue>Green AFAIK

Greens are supposed to be low power drives, even though they fail at it.