WD Blue vs WD Red ZFS RaidZ2

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When buying over 40 drives just a little difference becomes a big one. What are real world experiences for the differences on these drives?

I am upgrading a system from 2TB drives to 6TB drives, this system runs FreeNAS we run 7 VDev's into one pool all VDev's are RaidZ2. Using RaidZ2 I have had 0 data loss ever, I usually have at least 1-2 hot spares in the machines. I haven't lost data even when using drives through the high failure Segate disaster etc. This system is used mostly for a whole home video and audio system. So it is lots of storage but a not of changes throughput etc.

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Unless someone tells me otherwise I always considered the new Blue's to be rebadged Green's.
 
A long time ago I used some of the greens didn't have a problem with them for the application but what makes you say that?
 
@OP

As rive22 states, the high-capacity Blues (i.e. every capacity except 1TB) are essentially Greens, rebadged due to the bad reputation Greens acquired due to an overly-aggressive IntelliPark feature (which has since been fixed). As for real world differences, Reds are mechanically more solid, since they include features (such as StableTrac) from the 7KRPM enterprise drives. They also have a three year warranty, as opposed to a two year warranty for the Blues, and they also support modification of their TLER setting, if you need to change it. The Blues don't.
 
Also the problem with Intellipark in the new drives is you often can't disable it like in the past, the tool simply doesn't work.
 
Also the problem with Intellipark in the new drives is you often can't disable it like in the past, the tool simply doesn't work.

Whoa, really? What the hell? You must at least be able push it out to 300 secs or so, right?
 
Some drives it doesn't work at all, it just produces error messages when you try to use wdidle3. Not sure what the date is on the borderline for that. Unless somebody out there made a modified tool that works.
 
i don't believe the greens were rebadged due to "reputation".. probably more along the lines of Green's were diverting sales away from some of the other premium line of WD hard drives... they have entirely too many product lines..
Blues, Greens, Blacks, Purples, Reds, and Golds..
 
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