Gold is the enterprise ones. Black is enthusiast, blue is desktop, red is NAS, purple is NVR, green is external. Green you almost certainly don’t want (they do their own power management), red is likely to be SMR. But otherwise they’re not too different. If you saw a lot of blues failing, it’s probably because the systems you supported used blue almost exclusively.
I thought green was “eco.” At least the higher-end external ones tend to be red drives, which is famously why people shuck them to use internally because they’re often cheaper than just buying a red bare drive directly, for some reason.
Gold is the enterprise ones. Black is enthusiast, blue is desktop, red is NAS, purple is NVR, green is external. Green you almost certainly don’t want (they do their own power management), red is likely to be SMR. But otherwise they’re not too different. If you saw a lot of blues failing, it’s probably because the systems you supported used blue almost exclusively.
I thought green was “eco.” At least the higher-end external ones tend to be red drives, which is famously why people shuck them to use internally because they’re often cheaper than just buying a red bare drive directly, for some reason.
Correct about the greens. They used to be (might still be) the ones that ran at a lower RPM
You might be right. Although I think it’s been pretty hit or miss with which drives they use in those enclosures.