WD has been expanding its portfolio of storage solutions steadily within the past few years and the rise from 4TB to 6TB has been surprisingly quick and we’re already looking at the upcoming 8TB and 10TB solutions to hit the market soon. For now though, WD is focusing its large capacity solutions in its mass storage sector sectors namely the ones handled by the WD Green, Red and Purple lines of products. In this review we’ll take a look at the WD Green 6TB (WD60EZRX), high capacity storage for general consumers and mass media storage.
WD has announced 6TB capacities last year and our review of the WD Red 6TB showed us very good impressions of what to expect from the drives specifically the performance we get from the new 6TB capacities. Today we’ll take a look at the budget class of the WD lineup, the WD Green series and its 6TB capacity iteration. Read on.
Related: How To Choose the Best WD Hard Drive
Closer Look
PERFORMANCE
Test Setup
Processor: Intel Core i7 3770K
Motherboard: MSI Z77 MPOWER
Memory: Kingston HyperX Beast DDR3-2400 16GB
Storage: WD Green 6TB, Crucial M550 128GB
PSU: Seasonic Platinum P1000
Maximum Potential Performance
ATTO Disk Benchmark benchmarks a drive’s read and write speeds with increasing file sizes and graphs them.
Write Performance
For potential write testing, HD Tune was used to measure the drive’s write performance. Again, we focus on the average results for real-world relevance.
Crystal DiskMark
Crystal Disk Mark is storage benchmarking software was developed by “hiyohiyo†of Japan, and is available for free. Crystal Disk Mark measures sequential, and random read/write speeds of storage devices.
Real World Copy Tests
We’ve taken our compression test files, a collection of images, documents and other files ranging from 1KB to 50MB amounting to 3,310 files for 3.34GB and a single, large 12GB file. We’re posting the raw transfer results for your reference.
Final Thoughts
The WD Green 6TB offers some excellent looking performance figures despite the fact that WD isn’t telling what RPMs these drives run in. Basing from the access times, our say is 5400RPM still which has been the traditional speeds of the Green line for most of their history. The good thing here is that the WD Greens are aimed squarely at bulk storage. Typically large movie files, music, pictures all of which tend to be very large, individual files which the WD Green will have no problem serving up the files. Rated for 175MB/s, WD is a bit modest with our benchmarks showing us higher sequential performance and at the best scenarios, an incredible 200MB/s even.
In a recent WD launch event, the company has proposed a SSD+HD setup utilizing Intel’s Rapid Storage technology to deliver a high-performance storage solution without spending much on high-end storage solutions yet still maintain excellent access times while brandishing a larger capacity for the primary storage. A similar, in-house developed solution was made by WD in the past in the form of the poorly received WD Black2 but now the same concept is being adapted by more conventional means to make the WD Green shine.
Power consumption and cool operation is the heart of the WD Green drives and we measured the drive consumption at around 6.4w during load and 3.9w idle. Very good figures and easily fits many green builds that aim for efficiency.
The WD Green 6TB is listed at around Php13,400 but some etailers put it just around $250 making it a really solid option if you’re in the 6TB market. The only 6TB options from WD is the WD Red NAS HDD line which is your NAS-optimized variant. Still you can use the WD Green for your NAS too and get the benefit of its low power consumption.
If you’re looking for large storage for your bulk data or if you really don’t need a super-responsive HDD, then the WD Green would be a perfect fit for your needs.
Backed by a 3-year warranty and 24/7 support, we give the WD Green HDDs our B2G Recommended Award.
7 Comments
13400?!? o.o
Yissssss
after 3yrs nasira yung 2 kong black na 640gb 🙁
3 years is acceptable but still, doesn’t change the fact that data loss is painful. Did it take some files with it?
Despite being the guy that handles backup procedures in a company I worked for, it really took me a while to value back-up at home. Losing review data changed me :3
yung isa sir na backup pa pero yung isa hindi na nung sinilip ko yung loob ng isang wd black, na dislocate yung isang head ng actuator arm sa gitna (kaya sobrang lakas ng sound)
Aw nag-grind. Sobrang sakit marinig nun bro 🙁
Aint bad for 13K!