Previously the difference between Blue and Green are RPM and "intellipark"

If they rebrand green to blue, will those new blue have head parking issue?

I know you can disable it using WDIDLE3 but it's a hassle to new users and a detrimental behavior to the disks.

Some are noisy, some are not, depends on how well the platter is balanced on the spindle motor. A well balanced single platter HDD is very quiet in idle as almost inaudible.

I have seen countless threads from people asking why certain model of HDD makes so much humming, vibrating noise, while others claiming it is totally silent. The culprit lies in manufacturer variance. HDD being mechanical device, obeys standard manufacturing variance rules. Even for the same make / ...

HOWTO: Disable Seagate DM001 APM Head Parking *Permanently* This tutorial applies to DM series: ST1000DM003, ST2000DM001, ST3000DM001, ST4000DM000, as well SV35 series This is supposed to fix the random "Chirp", "Click" noise and stop SMART C1 Load Cycle Count from increasing fast. Hardware needed: ...