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Using WD 2TB Green for "daily" usage

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kanade

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Hello,

I'm thinking of replacing my current Samsung 2TB Green to WD 2TB Green and I was wondering if it's okay to constantly read/write on this HDD?

Minus gaming, some of the activities I perform on these hard drive include downloading via DD and Torrent, watching videos via media player and so on.
I also plan not to install any programs/apps as I'm going to use this hard drive for above activities and archive purpose.

The reason why I'm asking this is because I've been getting mixed comments on using green drive for daily usage could be or could not be detrimental to the HDD's life span.
Some people recommend to use WD blue or even black while others say it shouldn't matter much as long as I don't play games or install programs on it.

On the related note, I've been using my current Samsung Green for over five years now while performing those activities on daily basis. Apart from degraded read/write speed I haven't experienced crashes/failures "yet".
I'm probably lucky to have such sturdy HDD up until now, where I'm starting to see data corruption and loud scratching/buzzing noise for both reading and writing.

Thanks guys and I appreciate your opinions.
 
I doubt you will have any problems, even if you did install your apps and games to it.

If you are worried about torrents causing too many writes, you could always use a small SSD with SRT caching set to maximized mode (so it caches writes also), as it would significantly even out the actual writes to the disk. Either way I still think you will be fine. I use several WD greens in my file server. The best thing you can do to prolong hard drive lifespan is to keep the drives as cool as possible.
 
I had a rig with wd greens as the primaries when they first came out. No issues to worry about if you can deal with the slower speeds. That's about the only real downside.
 
The problem with them is not wear and tear, its the fact that using them for daily use is like watching a snail slither thru tar. They have smaller cache buffers and slower spindle speeds.

If you are doing multiple downloads at a time on a really fast internet connection (around 100mb/s or so) and trying to do other day to day tasks (reading from the drive) they tend to choke.

Using them as a separate drive than O/S they do a lot better for mass download usage.
 
Oh cmon, 7200rpm is only 33% faster in random IOps, but in reality only about 25%. So what are we talking about?

WD Green is about the best consumer-grade drive one can buy. All mechanical storage SUCKS BALLS in dark corners when concerning random IOps. SSDs are 100x to 1000x faster in this area. So get the best of both worlds: SSD for random IOps, HDD for mass storage. Problem solved! :)
 
Those Samsung drives are no joke. If I could buy more of them, I would.
 
Thanks for your reply guys.

If that's the case then I'll just stick with using WD green for my daily activities.
 
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