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Adding more storage but which one?

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Currently I have one Western Digital 6TB internal 7200rpm drive for storing music, movies, and photos from my Nikon P900 and need to upgrade very soon. I'm running out of storage space and was looking on newegg for a higher storage capacity drive. I found two Western Digital 12TB drives, one purple and the other gold. I read the purple is mainly for surveillance storage and the gold for enterprise storage. Does it really matter, I mean is one going to be better than the other or should I just go with the cheaper of the two?
 
The Gold drive comes with a 5 year warranty, as opposed to 3 for Purple, that alone would make me choose Gold when it's a mere $10 difference.
 
+1 for gold, purple is meant for running 24/7 with slow consistent writing the gold should give you a bit better performance and as Dougie mentioned the 5y warranty.
 
I am using a 10TB Gold for the last 5 months a my daily worker drive for mass storage (libraries, backups, etc) and I am very happy with it and its performance. During backups Maxrium peaks at over 220 MB/s sometimes.
 
Thanks for all your input, I missed the 5 year warranty on the gold version, so that makes it a no brainer, Gold it is! ;)
 
I think I read somewhere the bonus is that the larger Gold line might be the HGST Helioseal line rebadged so you could get it cheaper in the HGST but the key is they are helium imbued. I would trust tons of data with 'em :)
 
Pretty sure they are the same drive, aside from perhaps some firmware differences.
 
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