Best HD for my setup?

[jonandermb]

I use my setup at home, just do download via torrent, store and then watch some multimedia files.
Per day, the machine is switched on no more than two hours, so I don't need a 24/7 optimized HD drives.
I'm gathering info about the WD hard disk color code and according to their guide, red ones are best for nas, but I'm thinking about getting the green variant, since speed is not important at all: I don't want to spend extra money for better speed since only one user is going to be accessing simultaneously to the disks and I'm planning on shifting from raidz (raid5 on zfs, 3x2Tb HDD to get 4 Tb total storage space) to a mirrorring system, so I'm thinking 2x4tb to get 4tb total space.

So, what do you think? Red, green, blue? Black is overpriced for what I want to do and the performance I'm needing, so I think I'll skip the option alltogether.


Thanks!

 

[Fuganater]

I use HDD for what they are designed for. I would get WD Reds.

 

[depasseg]

There is a similar thread going on somewhere around here. I'd keep it between the Greens and Reds. The Reds have a longer warranty than the Greens. The Greens have a non-NAS friendly idle and retry capability that needs to be disabled. look up wdidle3.exe (or something like that) but they are cheaper. Lots of folks are using the Greens with the non-NAS friendly stuff disabled.