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only lasts for a little while here during the show so let's talk about WD
black this isn't exactly A New Concept by any stretch of the imagination but
what it is is as a 3 and 1/2 in drive
it's the only one that's ever really been positioned as a performance leading
drive so what makes it different from something like a blue or what
differentiated it back then it was all about the tuning and Twee and things
like putting in dual processors in order to make it perform even better at the
time than a than an equivalent 7200 RPM drive and this is aligned with that
concept that it's not all about RPM because how does it perform better if it
spins at the same speed well it's more complicated than that so what is a black
drive for well it's for people who don't want to worry about their Drive dying
for one thing it comes with a 5-year warranty which for a consumer hard drive
is actually the highest available so you go ahead you build yourself a system
with an ASUS tough series board a wd Black Edition drive you throw like you
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
going to have backing for like 5 years on the main components inside and you
don't have to worry about them failing it's also still the highest performance
3 and 1 half in consumer Drive in Western digitals lineup and optimized
for applications where a lower-end hard drive isn't really appropriate things
where that extra little bit of performance might make a lot of sense things like a scratch disc if you're
working in Adobe Premiere or after effects or something along those lines
and where an SSD might not make a ton of sense like a scratch disc I love SSD as
much as the next person you guys know that but at the end of the day if you're
if you have you know swap files going back and forth to them or you're using
it as a scratch and you're writing you know 10 gigs Plus or 10 however much if
you're writing a ton of data to and from your SSD all the time every day in a
workstation grade environment there's a very good chance it won't last as long
as a hard drive because they do have an inherent limited life cycle when it
comes to rights so let's have a look at what kind of systems you might find a wd
black in this one here is a Puget systems gaming system it's got a 4 terab
WD black in it it should be noted that 4 terabyte is the highest capacity in
Western digital's desktop lineup right now both red and green do top out at 3
terabytes with blue topping out at 1 Tab and this is well basically to optimize
things like game load times and no they're not going to be as fast as if
you put the games on an SSD we all know this but your SSD is probably anywhere
from 60 gigs to 240 gigs if you bought it sometime in the last few years your
hard drive is anywhere from 500 gigs to 4 terabytes which means you can fit a
lot more games on it and here's an example of another similar type of
system whether it's a gaming machine or a workstation that you might find some
kind of WD black storage solution and this is the frame Edition leite from
compet extreme and what's cool about this particular system other than the
fact that it's great for high performance applications is that it is
able to passively cool not only everything inside it if you get a good
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
check that out it is a very open airflow system and because it is constructed
from pieces of aluminum you can see that the cooling solution over here for the
drive because remember blacks do not operate as cool as something like a
green or a red Drive the cooling solution allows these aluminum pieces to
go right up against the drive and dissipate the heat passively into the
rest of the case which leads us to the traditional one if you loved the caviar
back when WD had that branding then you'll pretty much love the blue because
it's an extension of it it's only available in capacities up to 1 tbte
which by today's standards might not seem like for you know the Savvy you
know developed Market consumer like that impressive especially when the Black is
a available with up to 4 terab in a single consumer grade device but for
emerging markets where they don't necessarily have the need for a Nas
special drive or they don't need a 5mm slim drive or a 7mm slim drive because
they're not using those kinds of devices yet blue makes a lot of sense because
here you go the original the original award-winning desktop hard drive quality
and reliability it's been around forever the technology may not be cutting edge
but that's almost the beauty of it is that it's not cutting edge it's something that we're very familiar with
at this point now something you might not be familiar with at this point is
the fact that not only the blue but every WD hard drive comes with a copy of
WD acronis True Image comes with it for free I had no idea the fact that I've
never heard of this was like unbelievable because the great
thing about a cronis is that it works a lot of the bundled Drive cloning
software that's out there doesn't work or it's buggy or it crashes or whatever
else I wouldn't trust it it's powered by chonis yay thumbs up anyway guys don't
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away after the show