Upgrading a PC

Chino

fenwick458 said:

decided my PC could do with being upgraded. was just browsing looking to buy a whole new PC, then found this thread.

It would have been better to have started your own thread instead of hijacking the OP's, which was only started a couple of days ago.

rmg1

I've seen these on ebuyer:-
HDD - https://www.ebuyer.com/393482-wd-blue-1tb-desktop-hard-drive-3-5-sata-iii-6gb-s-7200rpm-64mb-wd10ezex

SSD - https://www.ebuyer.com/859602-wd-green-480gb-2-5-7mm-solid-state-drive-wds480g2g0a

Anyone any comments?

Cisco001

Probably go for £49 WD blue SSD instead
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-WDS500G2B0A-Blue-Internal/dp/B073SBZ8YH/ref=asc_df_B073SBZ8YH/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310739933748&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=579676292027897226&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006524&hvtargid=pla-380392857041&psc=1&th=1&psc=1

rmg1

Thanks for that.  Stupid question time..........
What do the different colours denote?

neilmcl

rmg1 said:

Thanks for that.  Stupid question time..........
What do the different colours denote?

Blue =  General purpose drives
Black = High performance
Red = NAS drives
Purple = Camera surveillance systems and PVRs
Green = Budget drives.

Neil_Jones

WD Green is the slower spinning drives (usually something like 5900rpm), they quite often find their way into PVR machines too as they are also quiet.  Not necessarily budget, though they probably are.  They're quite often just Blue drives in new packaging with a slower rotation.

Note that there is nothing to stop you using a drive outside of its designed purpose.  You can put a WD Red in a desktop (or a Black in a NAS) and it'll work just fine.

getmore4less

Neil_Jones said:

WD Green is the slower spinning drives (usually something like 5900rpm), they quite often find their way into PVR machines too as they are also quiet.  Not necessarily budget, though they probably are.  They're quite often just Blue drives in new packaging with a slower rotation.

Note that there is nothing to stop you using a drive outside of its designed purpose.  You can put a WD Red in a desktop (or a Black in a NAS) and it'll work just fine.

The green and alternative blue suggested  in the links were  SSD