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does black westen 6TB has problems with failures and heat and very high temperatures?>?
My experience and reading combined tell me that heat is not an issue as long as you have normal airflow. Noise is there if you listen for it, but is not bad to me.

As to failures, every hard drive of any manufacturer in every size is prone to failure. It could be day one, or day 4,000. The only certainty is that all will fail.
 
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so my question is to buy Western Digital Blue 5TB or to buy black 6Tb western??
which is the difference between black and blue drives??
because i have heard that The larger blues run at a slower 5400 rpm. This helps them be more quiet as well. ??
 

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so my question is to buy Western Digital Blue 5TB or to buy black 6Tb western??
which is the difference between black and blue drives??
because i have heard that The larger blues run at a slower 5400 rpm. This helps them be more quiet as well. ??
Look at the specs? The Black is the better drive by a fair margin in terms of performance, the blue is quieter but in a real world context…….. I have a 1TB black and cannot hear it ever above my very quiet case fans, comparisons of the WD options at this size...………...

https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2796-wd-blue-vs-black-vs-red-in-2017
 
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you have black drive?? tatty?? i didnt know this

so i will buy 6tB black tatty do you believe that my choise for buying 6TB black is very good in all terms>.?
because you said that yoy have black and you dont have problems with black corect??
 

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you have black drive?? tatty?? i didnt know this

so i will buy 6tB black tatty do you believe that my choise for buying 6TB black is very good in all terms>.?
because you said that yoy have black and you dont have problems with black corect??
Did you read the comparison? I have a 2 year old 1TB drive, it's likely to be an older and probably inferior model to those 6TB drives, I have had no issues to date, you will see from the comparison that the Black has a much longer warranty so even if it failed in the first 5 years it would be replaced, to be honest I look to replace my drives more often than 5 years in any case.
 

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data storage (movies, music, pictures etc.) BLACK 6tb WESTERN IS NOT GOOD??

because i have heard that blue drives are better for data storage (movies, music, pictures etc.) from BLACK 6tb WESTERN drives

so for games data storage (movies, music, pictures etc.) which is better black drives or blue drives??

also black drives comes with 128 cashe or 256 cashe memory??
 

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data storage (movies, music, pictures etc.) BLACK 6tb WESTERN IS NOT GOOD??

because i have heard that blue drives are better for data storage (movies, music, pictures etc.) from BLACK 6tb WESTERN drives

so for games data storage (movies, music, pictures etc.) which is better black drives or blue drives??

also black drives comes with 128 cashe or 256 cashe memory??
Is a blue drive a little more economical for storage or general office use? Yes. But Blacks are overall more reliable.

2 of my data storage drives in my server are blacks, because I want them to last like Reds do, but I access them frequently, and I want more speed
 

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OP, you are going around in circles again, you have asked which is the best drive, the consensus is Black, the reviews show it is Black, I even posted you a comparison between the Black and Blue, you decide and purchase, no one will buy it for you. You will just end up getting this one closed, you just don't seem to want to listen or you are unable to make a decision.
 
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As Tatty pointed WD has 5 year warranty, Seagate only 2. For me Seagate is no go just because of that.
 
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TL;DR For everyone else reading. The OP got an answer but doesn’t seem to want to accept it.
 
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Be aware that bigger drives have a higher failure rate than smaller drives.

In order to pick the "best", you have to answer best for what ? Is best the fastest ? ... is best the most reliable ? is best the lowest priced drive capable of what you plan do do with it

We stopped buying Hard Drives 7 years ago, all of our boxes are equipped with SSDs + SSHDs ... so far no SSHDs have failed. The Seagate SSHD is 50% faster than the WD Black in Gaming and 2.5 times faster than the Blue. For most of your stated usages, you do not need a high performance drive. A green, 5400 rpm drive would be just fine.

I am a bit confused about the stated "delete and install games ,, add movies delete movies ". There is no significance to performance in either case as these are done instantly in the case of deletion, and in the background generally otherwise. Unless of cours you stop usinmg the PC and stare at the progress bar while the disk is being written to.

Now "playing games" would appear to be your most significant usage. Here you would benefit with an SSHD substantially. IIRC, THGs test numbers in the gaming test were 9.73 MB/sec for the SSHD, 6.43 for the Black and 4.01 for the Blue.

From a reliability standpoint, over the last 3 years or so as a brand, Seagate has proven the most reliable (consumer drives in consumer boxes) .... I wouldn't put mush stock in the "brand" stats as they are all perty close. Data for last year currently available

HGST = 0.975%
Seagate = 0.825%
Toshiba = 0.930%
Western = 1.150%

What we should worry about are the individual model failure rates ... Of course for newer models, no data is available; the results of actual RMAs between 6 and 12 month of usage.

No 2 TB drive models had a failure rate over 2%

For 3 TB

5,08% WD Black 3 To
4,70% Toshiba DT01ACA300 3 To

2,09% WD Red 3 To

For 4 TB

2,95% WD Red 4 To
2,81% Seagate IronWolf 4 To
2,49% WD Purple Video surveillance 4 To

For 6TB
10,00% Seagate Desktop HDD 6 To
6,78% Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD 6 To

For the previous reporting period

3,42% Toshiba Toshiba X300 5 To
3,37% WD Red WD60EFRX
2,67% WD Green WD60EZRX
1,43% WD Red WD50EFRX
0,87% Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD ST6000VN0001
0,74% Seagate Desktop HDD ST6000DM001
0,00% Seagate NAS HDD ST6000VN0021

I included the full list here so you could be aware of how statistics work ... Note the Seagate has two NAS drives which showed 0.00% failures and 6.78% failures in consecutive periods. They have similar but not the same names. The Desktop HDD went from 0.74% to 10.00% in two consecutive periods. Significant point being, ya have to make sure you are looking at the same exact model.

Also, just because a drive was not listed, does not mean that it is a good drive.... in order to be considered valid statistically, there needs to be at least 100 units in the sampling size, as these are among the highest performing and highest proced drives, I would guess the reason neither was present was that neither passed this threshold.

Unfortunately no data on the pro model

Couldn't find any 6 TB reviews but storage review compared the 10 Tb version of the Seagate with the 6 TB WD and it wasn't close. The Black had much better I/O but for your stated usage, I/O is not of real significance; transfer rate comparisons were almost all in Seagate's favor.

https://www.storagereview.com/seagate_barracuda_pro_10tb_hdd_review

Anandtech, THG and DPreview stamped the "fastest desktop HD" moniker on the Seagate Pro.

The pro is rated for 300 TB of writes per year (perty high) and both the 6 TB and 10 TB are rated for theme transfer rate (220 MB/s) so speed differences between drive sizes should not be significant. The 12 TB is rated at 250 Mb/s

With the Pro at $219 and the Black at $239 (newegg) , if US based, you have as much data as i was able to find in 10 minutes. I could not find any noise data whereby both were in the same test but otherwise looked comparable.... I also did see a similar number of "noise issues" reported on forums for both.
 

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TL;DR For everyone else reading. The OP got an answer but doesn’t seem to want to accept it.

Its not about accepting it. Its about ignoring it.
 

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After now going through 4 different drives when we started with 2, it appears at least to me that the OP has all the information to make an informed decision, although clearly that is what he is struggling with so thread now closed as it's going nowhere. OP, for what it's worth, IMO go with the Black, you won't be disappointed and enjoy that 5 year warranty and fast speeds.
 
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