Hard Drive Colours and Usage:-

Colours of Hard dirves
Colours of Hard drives

Types of Colours of Hard Drives:-

  1. Green
  2. Blue
  3. Red
  4. Black
  5. Purple
  6. Gold

Don't Buy The Wrong Hard Drive!

Western Digital has a number of colours representing their performance and optimal use of their drives

Let's take a look at them today


Green:-

green hard drive
green hard drive


  • More power-efficient
  • Very Low Performance
  • Slower read and write speeds

Blue:-

Blue Hard Drive
Blue Hard Drive

  • General Storage Home User
  • Performance is lower than Black HDD-7200 rpm

BLACK:-

Black Hard Drive
Black Hard Drive

  • Best for Gaming, media and content creation

PURPLE:-

Purple Hard Drive
Purple Hard Drive
  • Video surveillance 9 storage, 27*7 continuous working design

RED:-

Red Hard Drive
Red Hard Drive

  • servers/NAS/datacenter HDD
  • These drivers have fast read speeds

GOLD:-

Gold Hard Drive
Gold Hard Drive

  • It is same as RED but GOLD gives more performance than RED
  • It is used in Premium Data centres






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