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Western Digital Red vs Blue SATA SSD

Shrek

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How much better is the Western Digital Red over the Blue SATA SSD? At the moment the 1TB version is only $6 more.

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WD Red is designed for NAS drives. WD Blue is designed for consumers.
WD Blue is slightly faster and is more diverse in terms of options. (Storage, form factor etc.)
In reality they perform the same in terms of real usage and it's just marketing.
 
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The red drive has 600 TBW endurance vs 400 TBW for the blue.

Otherwise the drives are margin of error in all performance metrics.
 
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Blue HDD where super slow. The M.2 are only SATA protocol. However for SSDs, I think the only major difference here is the the write endurance.
 
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I just lost an almost new Inland 512GB SATA SSD, so time to stop buying cheap.

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