Hard drives 1-2Tb SATA-III Western Digital - which is better Red | blue | green | Black?

Question

Hard disks

Good evening! Colleagues, I have such a question.
From a series of 1-2Tb SATA-III Western Digital hard drives - which one is better Red, Blue, Green and Black or which one is better to buy from another brand?
I heard that there is a difference in the quality of the series of hard drives from Western Digital - Red, Blue, Green and Black
In terms of reliability and speed.
I would like to hear the opinion of experienced people about which disk is better for storing different projects (for the main partition)

Answer 1

If we talk about speed, then the Black series HDD will be the fastest. And they are the same in quality. Take a disc of the Black or Red series.

Answer 2

for main section

the black series would be better, since they are faster, and in terms of reliability, I would take the Red series because of the 5-year warranty (for HDD, disk exchange is a fairly simple procedure by serial number, unlike other vendors).
When buying disks, be sure to pay attention to the production date, since the warranty period is most likely longer than the store one and you can buy a disk that, after the store’s warranty expires, you can simply replace a significant bonus by serial in a couple of years
ps In general, everyone has been installing an SSD for a long time, if of course, you don’t need ten gigabytes for each of your projects

Answer 3

At the moment, there is such a trend.
For about 30 machines, for video engineers and designers (I work in a TV company), we collected the config:
- SSD for OS and Software
- HDD 2Tb WD Black se. (Raid 5) for projects and other data.
I agree with the previous commentator that black se. the fastest of the WD line (with the exception of 10k), so access to project files, whether it's a render or libraries, will be at a decent level. By the way, they also have a 5-year warranty period from the manufacturer.