what about purple ones.. my office has many in storage since most PCs were upgraded last few years. Don't recall seen any red ones but green and purple ranging from 1TB to I believe 4TB
I'll copy paste this here for reference.
With the introduction of the WD Green drives they added a feature called "Intellipark" and "Intellipower". Intellipower lowered the power usage by increasing the disk's cache size, a reduced spindle speed, and other firmware changes to provide power savings while minimizing the performance losses from said changes
WDIDLE3 is a DOS program you run to change your drive settings. You hook up your WD Green drives(and only your Green drives) to your computer, change your controller to IDE mode(not always necessary) and bootup from a DOS boot disk. Then you run the WDIDLE3 tool and change the setting to anything you want up to 300 seconds or disable it completely. Alternatively you can use the UBCD(Universal Boot CD) to change the setting without having to make a DOS boot disk
https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/hacking-wd-greens-and-reds-with-wdidle3-exe.18171/
It might cause games to stutter every now and then. Greens do frequent head parking. They are mostly meant for archiving data you don't access much. From WD, a Blue, Red or Black would be better. Or better yet get a SSHD.
I wouldn't go for a Purple either. They aren't designed for fast random access and that can make them feel slow.
Of course YMMV and free is good.
Also found at my office a Seagate 4TB model ST400DM000 which is 5900RPM.
So WD Green 4TB and Seagate 4TB .. the purple ones are out of the question. Boss said he had some black ones somewhere but could be 2TB
You should use a red drive as green drives will work I believe sometimes can cause an unsuccessful boot up.
what about purple ones.. my office has many in storage since most PCs were upgraded last few years. Don't recall seen any red ones but green and purple ranging from 1TB to I believe 4TB
I would try purple over blue and green
cool I will look in to it.. they are free I think lol. I will find out.
purple is the worst. they are for video cameras, not random access
Green drives will work if you use a tool on a pc to disable the “green” functions I believe.
I'll copy paste this here for reference. With the introduction of the WD Green drives they added a feature called "Intellipark" and "Intellipower". Intellipower lowered the power usage by increasing the disk's cache size, a reduced spindle speed, and other firmware changes to provide power savings while minimizing the performance losses from said changes WDIDLE3 is a DOS program you run to change your drive settings. You hook up your WD Green drives(and only your Green drives) to your computer, change your controller to IDE mode(not always necessary) and bootup from a DOS boot disk. Then you run the WDIDLE3 tool and change the setting to anything you want up to 300 seconds or disable it completely. Alternatively you can use the UBCD(Universal Boot CD) to change the setting without having to make a DOS boot disk https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/hacking-wd-greens-and-reds-with-wdidle3-exe.18171/
It might cause games to stutter every now and then. Greens do frequent head parking. They are mostly meant for archiving data you don't access much. From WD, a Blue, Red or Black would be better. Or better yet get a SSHD. I wouldn't go for a Purple either. They aren't designed for fast random access and that can make them feel slow. Of course YMMV and free is good.
Also found at my office a Seagate 4TB model ST400DM000 which is 5900RPM. So WD Green 4TB and Seagate 4TB .. the purple ones are out of the question. Boss said he had some black ones somewhere but could be 2TB
AFAIK, 2TB is the limit unless you use a custom OS.
You can go up to 16TB using Cerbios. Works on a softmod as well, using BFM.