welcome to my unboxing and first look at something that we've kind of looked at
before but not quite this is the Western
Digital My Book Velociraptor Duo so
we've already had a look at their other dual Drive Thunderbolt enclosure which
actually had green drives inside which means you've got bigger capacity so that
one was a 4 tbte model whereas this one
is only 2 terab of total capacity but
the big difference is this one instead of those screen drives which spin at a
around 5,400 RPM has two drives that spin at 10,000 RPM so we're going to
have more performance faster response times and lower capacity but more
performance and faster response times which is what Thunderbolt is all about
so let's see what WD I've already done my SPI but let's see what they think
dramatic performance data protection and daisy chain flexibility cool 2 terabytes
or up to 2 terabytes depending on how you configure it two WD Velociraptor
10,000 RPM drives inside compatible with
OSX 10 whatever you want to call it okay we're going to look at that when we open
it up blazing speed from WD Velociraptor
10,000 RPM driv revolutionary Thunderbolt interface okay so we pretty
much covered this so let's open it up and have a look at what this one looks
like compared to the other one that we did already unbox and I am expecting it
to look very similar so we have a power brick we have really it includes a
Thunderbolt cable but not wait yeah it includes a Thunderbolt cable oh that's
awesome way to go WD for like Manning up
and including the cable with these expensive Thunderbolt products love it
good show okay moving right
along oh it says that right on the box had I not gone through the box so
quickly I might have noticed that it says Thunderbolt cable included and
contents Thunderbolt cable but I like
surprises that's half the fun of this unboxing channel it's like the surprise
of not reading the box and then being surprised by things that shouldn't
surprise us um you know what we should do just for giggle since I might not
actually open the enclosure is uh we should go be surprised that we have a
Western Digital Velociraptor and we should see if like
uh so this is our Velociraptor let's just see if our Velociraptor is the same
as their Velociraptor but let's take a look at the at the enclosure first so
it's about the size of two 3 and 1 half in drives if you guys aren't sure of the
scale and uh I would also love to do the traditional iPhone size comparison I
know it's been a while since I've pulled this out but there you go iPhone size
comparison so now you all will know how big it is lots of cooling you can see
here there's passive ventilation going on in the bottom passive ventilation
going going on in the top heat does naturally rise so you'll get cool air
because these feet are so tall coming in through through the bottom of the
enclosure and then up through the top I wouldn't recommend running this on a soft surface such as like on your bed
next to your laptop although usually that probably wouldn't come up but I
would recommend putting it down on a hard surface okay at the back of oh
right indicator LED there it's hiding probably can't even see that on the
camera don't worry about it on the back you've got your power in your Kensington lock because this baby is valuable
you're going to want to lock that up if you were using it in
public or as a store demo you know there's a valid reason for this um two
Thunderbolt ports so these are passrs which means you can daisy chain up to
six of these which would be just oh way
too balling out so that would be 6 * 2 terabytes potentially with the whole
thing running in raid zero off a 10 GB per section thund you know I wonder if I
could convince WD to send me 10 uh six of these
probably not okay let's have a look at the drives inside so I'm expecting these
to be regular Velociraptor drives so you might as well look at the that while I
open it so this is a 2 and 1/2 in Drive however it is a thicker form factor
drive and it comes with a huge heat
sink that allows it to stay cool and uh
and and perform you know like it's 10,000 revolutions per minute that it
that it does and here we go a so only
only use WD Velociraptor drives now the other one was labeled only use green
drives I don't know if this is firmware locked or anything like that but it's
clearly nothing to do with the actual cooling capacity of the unit because
they've taken their lowest power
um coolest running drives and their highest power hottest running drives and
they've put them both in this enclosure so maybe I'm overthinking this but yes
it just has this handy dandy pull tab
and other than that it looks the same as our Velociraptor down to the same part
number two 1 TB Velociraptors and now
they're like um now they're like dual
Raptors thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the WD mybook
Velociraptor Duo remember this is all about more performance and faster
response times this is a professional grade product so if you were doing for
example video editing then you might want something
like this because it will be something that you can portably take with you with
your footage you'll get the again the response time that you get from the faster RPM drives and the capacity that
you need that's not always on for example um many modern notebooks that
are equipped with Thunderbolts so you can get that storage and the speed and the I think I've repeated myself a few
times so let's just finish up with
um I don't know clowns