Does it make sense to have a WD Red series hdd in a netbook torrent rocking chair / locker room?

Question

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Gave away an old netbook, Lenovo S9. I want to make a quiet torrent rocking chair / locker room out of it + watch movies from it over the network (work under Ubuntu server, but it doesn’t matter).
I plan to buy a capacious hard. Unfortunately HDD from WD Green series are thick (not standard 15mm thick). I think what to choose, the usual WD Blue or WD Red (1TB).
Will a WD Red series drive make sense?
As I understand it, it parks heads more productively and less often, so you can shake off a longing laptop, but for me it will stand statically and work 24 hours. On the other hand, will there be a difference in the cut of the weak iron of the netbook?
Critical durability.
In short: should I take WD Red or get by with WD Blue? Or can advise HDD of other firm.

Answer 1

If as a station purely for torrenting, then I would still choose Red, this series is based just the same for a "home" NAS / SAN.
If you understand English, then here is a good article, somewhere in the center they describe everything:
www.smbitjournal.com/2014/05/understanding-the-wes...

Answer 2

I would take either Samsung or Hitachi or Toshiba, the price of course bites, but reliability in a home file-garbage/rocking chair/distributor is more important, WD, of course, are not bad, but they are afraid of overheating, I know from experience that WD die silently, without warning, when the rest of the screws start to fail, slow down, giving signals that everything is bad, there is some chance to save the data.