WD Green drives turn blue

[scottalanmiller]

Yeah, it sounds like the Green are being called Blue. So are the Blue going away?

[nadnerB]

Doesn't look like it. From my initial research, I think it's just a rebadge from Green to Blue.

[scottalanmiller]

@nadnerB said:

Doesn't look like it. From my initial research, I think it's just a rebadge from Green to Blue.

If you do that, where do the Blue go? The existing Blue must disappear, right?

[hubtechagain]

Blue 1 and blue 2

[Deleted74295]

RX is standard blue
RZ is eco green.

Just look at the model numbers.

[scottalanmiller]

@Breffni-Potter said:

RX is standard blue
RZ is eco green.

Just look at the model numbers.

For starters, that is the most confusing thing ever. But are you sure? They made a point hat the existing RX drives are switching to RZ drives. So to make things even more confusing than changing the name of Green to Blue they are going to make the Blue drives have the Green product labels?

[dafyre]

Why don't they juts rebrand the drives as a single color: Bluegreen.

[scottalanmiller]

WD Aquamarine

[coliver]

@scottalanmiller said:

WD Aquamarine

I would totally buy that brand!

[Jason]

WD Slow
WD High Failure

That's what they should rename the lines to, makes it easy for the consumer.

[MattSpeller]

I'm still waiting for WD's SSD line "Bigger & Blacker"

[scottalanmiller]

WD.... once you go Black.

[brendan pitstop nz]

perhaps WD have realized that their "green" drive got so much flak for being - crap - they are trying to rebrand - again
green = slow, slow and slow
blue = rubbishy
black = the only one you should buy
who knows what will happen next. they should just go back to making decent drives, instead of cheap rubbish

[scottalanmiller]

I've actually had very good luck with the Green, Red and RE drives.

[Reid Cooper]

WD Green are slow, no doubt. But I don't know of anyone who has had issues with them. Of course, being slow, they are generally more reliable simply due to the fact that they do not have to move as fast and will not wear out as quickly.

[nadnerB]

Just in case any of you were wondering, the WD vendor page on SW posted this:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1265694-don-t-buy-the-wrong-hard-drive

YouTube link from their very thin post:
Youtube Video

[nadnerB]

Just putting it out there, WhatzHisFace (chap in the video) mentions RAID 5 in a positive manner for spinning rust drives.

[Dashrender]

@nadnerB said:

Just putting it out there, WhatzHisFace (chap in the video) mentions RAID 5 in a positive manner for spinning rust drives.

headslap

[scottalanmiller]

WD's own devices use RE drives in RAID 5.

[nadnerB]

@scottalanmiller said:

WD's own devices use RE drives in RAID 5.

I'd still pass.