Find Your Color
Western Digital colors are families of high-performance
internal drives
Internal storage is a necessary component of any system. It’s where you keep your data files, documents, photos, music and more. It’s also where your apps, programs, and operating system reside. Western Digital drive colors make it easy to identify the right drive family for your needs.
Western Digital, a world leader in digital storage solutions manufactures a wide variety of hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD) for almost every need. Our drives can assist the student or casual user that performs light daily tasks, to small businesses that require intense enterprise arrays that work 24/7 to deliver data to essential systems that enhance our lives.
We can help you compare features among the various families of purpose-built, internal drives we have to offer:
The Color Drive Families
The WD Green Family
WD Green is designed for everyday light computing tasks, the WD Green family of solid state drives deliver the reliability and value customers like students and casual home users are looking for.
The WD Blue Family
WD Blue gives computing professionals the power they need. WD Blue HDDs and SSDs are ideal for desktop, laptop, and all-in-one PCs with a variety of form factors and storage capacities.
The WD_BLACK Family
WD_BLACK is a great choice for a superior gaming experience and for enhancing any PC or laptop. With WD_BLACK you can build the ultimate gaming rig to power through your opponents.
The WD Red Family
WD Red drives are uniquely engineered for use in NAS (Network-Attached Storage) enclosures of a single drive up to 24 drives in a single array. Suitable for personal cloud devices for home or office. Designed to work together to deliver fast speeds and data mirroring, WD Red drives can stand up to the heat, vibration, and always-on environment of NAS enclosures.
The WD Purple Family
WD Purple is our exclusive line of drives purpose-built for the demands of home video surveillance systems that operated 24/7. WD Purple HDDs are high capacity, performance storage for smart video recording with AllFrame™ technology to help reduce frame lost and can record HD resolutions.
The WD Gold Family
WD Gold is our solution for enterprise and corporate storage challenges. Designed for use in small business data hubs, WD Gold drives are built for the demands of 24/7, continuous data access, writes, and delivery.
Disclosures:
1. As used for storage capacity, 1GB = 1 billion bytes and 1TB = one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less, depending on operating environment.
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