How do you know if you have a Green, Blue or non Green or Blue Drive

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Ok so if I was going to buy an internal hard drive for my Dell laptop from Dell and they said was a 7200rpm hard drive, how would I know that it isn't a green drive?

[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Ok so if I was going to buy an internal hard drive for my Dell laptop from Dell and they said was a 7200rpm hard drive, how would I know that it isn't a green drive?

Most green drives are not ever really 7,200 rpm, but some confused marketing may claim that. You need to know the exact make/model of drive you are buying, or don't buy it. Why would you want to buy any add-on drive from Dell?

Amazon and others have many great 2.5" HDD and SSDs for laptops.

Especially for a laptop I would look at SSDs as they are robust/virtually immune to rough handling, use less power and are sigificantly faster than a HDD.

[JFreak]

I THINK it is safe to buy that 7200rpm drive, as I don't believe any manufacturer advertises 2.5" and 7200rpm and green in the same package. Laptop drives are 5400rpm by default so if they say 7200rpm they also say not green.

But this is just an educated guess.

[[email protected]]

Thanks for the advice you were right. I bought the Dell hard drive, they sent it to me and it was actually a Western Digital Black 7200 rpm drive, from what I am told a Western Digital Black 7200 rpm is good hard drive to run Pro Tools. Thanks

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Thanks for the advice you were right. I bought the Dell hard drive, they sent it to me and it was actually a Western Digital Black 7200 rpm drive, from what I am told a Western Digital Black 7200 rpm is good hard drive to run Pro Tools. Thanks

WD Black drives are among the best, so you were really lucky :)