Deciding between WD black and WD red. 3Tb.

[athlon64]

So. I now have 2x 2tb greens. They are full. I have a buyer for one of them and i would like to buy a 3Tb HDD for my PC. My rig runs 24/7/365 and i seed about 70 torrents 12 hours a day. So my drives are under quiet a bit of load. So far wd greens have been doing a good job but they are slow as ****. That is not a big problem because i have a kingston 120Gb ssd. But if i want to use my hard drive as a scratch disk for premiere. Or put some games on it green is a bit slow. And wd blacks have a 5 year warranty witch means a lot to me. So a 3TB wd black would do a good job for me. However i'm a silence freak and the last time i had a 640gb wd black i couldn't stand it"s noise. So that is my concern now. When i had that drive my pc was in a coolermaster cm 690 2 witch has no isolation.

Now i have a fractal define r4 with really nice rubber grommets in hdd cages and a lot of isolation. So would a wd black be noiseless in my rig now? My fans run at 800rpm at idle. So yeah, my rig is mostly noiseless. Now new wd greens are also fast because they use 1TB platters/ But i"m looking at speedtests and some reds are a lot slower then new greens. How do i know witch models have 1TB platters and witch don"t? Is the WD3001FAEX wd black a drive with 1Tb platters. Is the WD30EFRX a wd red with 1Tb platters? I don:t want one of the older drives with 750Gig platters.
So what do you think is the best choice for me?

 

[Drakkonen]

The black will definitely be audible, I'm not sure that there is any case out there that can make it inaudible. I can hear my blue easily when it spins up and they are slightly quieter than the blacks from what I've heard.

 

[athlon64]

So there is no way to make a wd BLACK very very quiet. Even in a define r4?

Then let"s get to the second question. Why is a WD30EFRX quiet a bit slower then a WD30EZRX. So that is the 3tb wd red vs the new 3tb wd green?

 

[wrenaudrey]

I know this isn't answering or helping you at all and is completely off topic but can I ask you a question about your green drives?
Do they really stop if you're not using them even if HDD's under power management is set to never be put to sleep/stop?
When they spin up, do you hear them? Are they loud?
What's the vibration like, does that contribute to any of the noise?
Thanks

 

[athlon64]

I modded theirs firmware so they don"t even park theirs heads
And no, they never stopped spinning. Even on default settings.