Timeline for WD Red Pro vs Black vs Gold
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| Feb 21, 2018 at 9:52 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/super_user/status/966249343287222274 | ||
| Oct 31, 2017 at 11:05 | comment | added | flolilo | My experience with hard drives is quite diametral to yours: I have dozens of old & new well working Seagate drives, but all WDs I have (except 4 WD Red 3TB) die on me within a year. Of course, all of that is pointless as it is anecdotal evidence. Here's a nice chart from BackBlaze with some interesting statistics (Source). | |
| Oct 31, 2017 at 6:40 | history | edited | fixer1234 |
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| Oct 30, 2017 at 23:29 | comment | added | Ramhound | I will prepare an answer. I will not suggest anything though just outline the reliability of each product class. | |
| Oct 30, 2017 at 23:25 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 30, 2017 at 23:22 | comment | added | Ramhound | Well it calls itself a controller. suppose processor had a broader definition then I place on it. | |
| Oct 30, 2017 at 23:21 | comment | added | Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams | Hard drives have had processors for a while now. You're not going to implement the fancy parts of SATA with just glue logic. | |
| Oct 30, 2017 at 23:19 | comment | added | Ramhound | MTBF on the gold is 2,500,000 hours vs 100,000 on Red Pro and undocumented with the black. | |
| Oct 30, 2017 at 23:15 | comment | added | davidgo | For the fun of it I removed the controller circuit from an old WD blue drive, and it has a Marvel 88i9045 chip which I believe will be a processor. | |
| Oct 30, 2017 at 23:07 | comment | added | davidgo | @Ramhound - WD begs to differ - from wdc.com/products/internal-storage/wd-black-desktop.html "The WD Black drive featurs a dual-core processor that offers twice the processing capacity as a standard single-core processor to maximize drive performance". Also, I think WE does not make a secret of the information I'm asking, but they don't make it particularly clear either. | |
| Oct 30, 2017 at 21:17 | history | asked | davidgo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
