Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 (edited) These drives are currently on sale for roughly $108.00 with free super saver shipping. This equates to about 3.6 cents per Gigabyte of storage. http://smile.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Green-Desktop/dp/B004RORMF6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1395781931&sr=8-2&keywords=western+digital+green If you're looking for some inexpensive storage than this might help you out. I don't know how long the price will stay this way. Edited March 25, 2014 by Wayne Luke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddyweiser 105 Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 I've been waiting for the red's to drop from 134.95 but the lowest they've gotten is 129. They're back up to reg price but if they drop again I'll probably pick a couple up. Its still a decent deal with free shipping and no tax. Sent from my DROID RAZR HD using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyFr79 228 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 I won't touch a green drive ever, they burn out way to quickly and have lousy performance, it's always worth it to spend the little extra and get a non gimped HDD if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techywarrior 688 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Green are their "eco" drives. Basically 5400 rpm low cache drives. I find them good for storage since you don't need great performance. If yours burnt out quickly it was probably bad luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted March 26, 2014 Author Share Posted March 26, 2014 (edited) You can set the idle period to higher using the firmware tools provided Western Digital. They would burn out with a low idle period and frequent accesses with small pauses. Most people say a 5 minute idle is good. Sharing for people on a budget though. I've been waiting for the red's to drop from 134.95 but the lowest they've gotten is 129. They're back up to reg price but if they drop again I'll probably pick a couple up. Its still a decent deal with free shipping and no tax. Sent from my DROID RAZR HD using Tapatalk Recently Newegg had Reds for about $118 earlier this month using a 10% promo code. Edited March 26, 2014 by Wayne Luke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaefurr 1337 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 I have 5 green drives going on around 3 years now of running 24/7 and ive never had any issues. I admit their a bit slow, but they work well for media. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyFr79 228 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 all my storage drives are part of large raid arrays so green drives wouldn't work either way for me, I've had some previous consumer electronics gear that the drives died after a year opened them up and low and behold green drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddyweiser 105 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Recently Newegg had Reds for about $118 earlier this month using a 10% promo code. I missed that one I'll have to keep an eye out for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmac 132 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I'm running 5 Green Drives right now, I was running 6 but I just had my oldest one die on me recently after around 5 years of near-24/7 usage. The remaining drives range from 2 that are 4 years old, 1 is 3 years old, and the other 2 are 2 years old. I'm looking at obtaining some new drives, and I was looking at Red's but from the positive experience I've had with my Green drives, I (so far) can't justify the price jump.Just my 2 cents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koleckai Silvestri 1150 Posted March 27, 2014 Author Share Posted March 27, 2014 The price has increased to roughly $118 for these drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyFr79 228 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 I'm running 5 Green Drives right now, I was running 6 but I just had my oldest one die on me recently after around 5 years of near-24/7 usage. The remaining drives range from 2 that are 4 years old, 1 is 3 years old, and the other 2 are 2 years old. I'm looking at obtaining some new drives, and I was looking at Red's but from the positive experience I've had with my Green drives, I (so far) can't justify the price jump. Just my 2 cents Higher MTBF and Longer warranties always make it worth the extra just my $.02 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddyweiser 105 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 In related news, I saw that the price for 3tb red's dropped to 129.99 in Amazon. Free shipping with prime is so close to greens to justify still going green in my opinion Sent from my DROID RAZR HD using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37161 Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 We now have Emby Server for Western Digital NAS in testing: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/59597-emby-server-for-western-digital-nas Please try it out and report your experience. Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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