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Compare Western Digital Caviar Green 5TB vs 500GB Caviar Green

Western Digital Caviar Green 5TB and Western Digital 500GB Caviar Green are both hard disk drives with the same RPM (5400) and Form Factor (3.5"). The main differences are in Performance (+88%), Capacity, Cache and Interface.

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Western Digital Caviar Green 5TB

Western Digital 500GB Caviar Green

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Brand

Western Digital

Brand

Western Digital

Model

WD50EZRX

Model

WD5000AADS

Release Date

📅 July 2014

Release Date

📅 October 2009

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Performance (Charts)

60th / 637

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Performance (Charts)

158th / 637

(-88%)

Effective Value

145th / 161

Effective Value

46th / 161

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Price/GB

$0.07

Price/GB

$0.05

GB/$1

13.89

GB/$1

20.44

Pros

Reliability
Low power consumption

Pros

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Capacity

5000 GB

Capacity

500 GB

Cache

64MB

Cache

32MB

RPM

5400

RPM

5400

Interface

SATA 6 Gb/s

Interface

SATA 3 Gb/s

Form Factor

3.5"

Form Factor

3.5"

Options (1)

Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB

500 GB
$68.00

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Comparison and key differences summary

Reasons to buy the Western Digital Caviar Green 5TB:

Hugely better performance, around +88%
Newer Product, it was released around 5 years later
More Capacity (+4500 GB available)
More Internal Cache (+32 MB available)

Reasons to buy the Western Digital 500GB Caviar Green:

93% cheaper, you can save $335.43
Much better effective value.

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