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Linus Tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our

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trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner

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is

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nc.com welcome to day four of our computex 2013 coverage powered by WD

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remember guys we've got some really cool giveaways that we're going to be doing

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after the show the more you watch our Western Digital content here at computex

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the more we get to giveaway so check out the details in the video description you

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can also get 15% off a WD drive if you

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live in the US or in the EU and that

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only lasts for a little while here during the show so let's talk about WD

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black this isn't exactly A New Concept by any stretch of the imagination but

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what it is is as a 3 and 1/2 in drive

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it's the only one that's ever really been positioned as a performance leading

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drive so what makes it different from something like a blue or what

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differentiated it back then it was all about the tuning and Twee and things

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like putting in dual processors in order to make it perform even better at the

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time than a than an equivalent 7200 RPM drive and this is aligned with that

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concept that it's not all about RPM because how does it perform better if it

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spins at the same speed well it's more complicated than that so what is a black

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drive for well it's for people who don't want to worry about their Drive dying

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for one thing it comes with a 5-year warranty which for a consumer hard drive

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is actually the highest available so you go ahead you build yourself a system

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with an ASUS tough series board a wd Black Edition drive you throw like you

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know I don't know Corsair memory in there with a lifetime warranty all of a sudden you've got a system where you're

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going to have backing for like 5 years on the main components inside and you

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don't have to worry about them failing it's also still the highest performance

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3 and 1 half in consumer Drive in Western digitals lineup and optimized

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for applications where a lower-end hard drive isn't really appropriate things

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where that extra little bit of performance might make a lot of sense things like a scratch disc if you're

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working in Adobe Premiere or after effects or something along those lines

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and where an SSD might not make a ton of sense like a scratch disc I love SSD as

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much as the next person you guys know that but at the end of the day if you're

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if you have you know swap files going back and forth to them or you're using

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it as a scratch and you're writing you know 10 gigs Plus or 10 however much if

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you're writing a ton of data to and from your SSD all the time every day in a

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workstation grade environment there's a very good chance it won't last as long

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as a hard drive because they do have an inherent limited life cycle when it

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comes to rights so let's have a look at what kind of systems you might find a wd

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black in this one here is a Puget systems gaming system it's got a 4 terab

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WD black in it it should be noted that 4 terabyte is the highest capacity in

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Western digital's desktop lineup right now both red and green do top out at 3

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terabytes with blue topping out at 1 Tab and this is well basically to optimize

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things like game load times and no they're not going to be as fast as if

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you put the games on an SSD we all know this but your SSD is probably anywhere

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from 60 gigs to 240 gigs if you bought it sometime in the last few years your

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hard drive is anywhere from 500 gigs to 4 terabytes which means you can fit a

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lot more games on it and here's an example of another similar type of

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system whether it's a gaming machine or a workstation that you might find some

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kind of WD black storage solution and this is the frame Edition leite from

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compet extreme and what's cool about this particular system other than the

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fact that it's great for high performance applications is that it is

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able to passively cool not only everything inside it if you get a good

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angle at this I'm going to go ahead and tilt it over here hopefully I'm not going to like break it or anything but

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check that out it is a very open airflow system and because it is constructed

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from pieces of aluminum you can see that the cooling solution over here for the

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drive because remember blacks do not operate as cool as something like a

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green or a red Drive the cooling solution allows these aluminum pieces to

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go right up against the drive and dissipate the heat passively into the

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rest of the case which leads us to the traditional one if you loved the caviar

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back when WD had that branding then you'll pretty much love the blue because

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it's an extension of it it's only available in capacities up to 1 tbte

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which by today's standards might not seem like for you know the Savvy you

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know developed Market consumer like that impressive especially when the Black is

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a available with up to 4 terab in a single consumer grade device but for

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emerging markets where they don't necessarily have the need for a Nas

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special drive or they don't need a 5mm slim drive or a 7mm slim drive because

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they're not using those kinds of devices yet blue makes a lot of sense because

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here you go the original the original award-winning desktop hard drive quality

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and reliability it's been around forever the technology may not be cutting edge

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but that's almost the beauty of it is that it's not cutting edge it's something that we're very familiar with

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at this point now something you might not be familiar with at this point is

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the fact that not only the blue but every WD hard drive comes with a copy of

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WD acronis True Image comes with it for free I had no idea the fact that I've

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never heard of this was like unbelievable because the great

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thing about a cronis is that it works a lot of the bundled Drive cloning

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software that's out there doesn't work or it's buggy or it crashes or whatever

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else I wouldn't trust it it's powered by chonis yay thumbs up anyway guys don't

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miss any of our computex 2013 coverage and don't forget to check out all of our

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WD videos because the more views we get the more awesome stuff we get to give

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away after the show