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welcome to my unboxing of something that is Bucking the trend this is the WD

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Velociraptor one tbte so you guys

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remember the Raptor okay so the Raptor

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first arrived on the scene in a capacity that honestly was unusable the 36 GB

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it's like I mean that's that's like when ssds for showed up and you're kind of

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looking at it going well okay so I could put my OS on it in like one game mind

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you at the time you could put more games than one game cuz games were smaller but

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now that games are like 17 gigs or more for certain games I mean my Dragon Age

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Origins game is like 30 gigs or something like that so okay so okay

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we've determined that the Raptor while it was fast and cool and relevant at the

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time is now too small too slow and hasn't existed for a very long time now

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the Velociraptor came along and rejuvenated the Raptor line the

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Velociraptor was available in higher capacities it was faster and more

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efficient and even then at the time it

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was still not that relevant because ssds were getting higher in capacity they

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were getting lower in price and they were so much faster that you're kind of

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looking at it going well like oh that doesn't really make that much sense this looks like a game changer

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this is the Velociraptor 1 tbte so we're a long way away from highperformance

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ssds that are 1 tbte and come in at a reasonable price the Velociraptor 1 tbte

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comes in at a very reasonable price remember magnetic storage is still many

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times cheaper per Gigabyte compared to Solid State Storage what's the

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application of this is it for a boot Drive personally I would say no I would

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say still this has a very valid place in a high performance system whether it's a

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workstation or even a gaming rig where you're using an SSD as your boot drive

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and you're using a velociraptor one tbte or even you know a raid of multiple

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Velociraptor 1 tabt in the context of

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needing high performance storage that also needs a lot of capacity so if

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you're using it as a scratch Drive working on very very large files if

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you're using it to store your steam Library so maybe you've got Windows

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installed on your SSD a couple key applications but you've got a huge steam

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library of games that is always expanding well you can't keep that on an

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SSD and honestly your storage system doesn't make that much of a difference

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except maybe with game loading times when you're popping into the game in

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terms of actually launching games and playing single player especially it

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doesn't make that much of a difference although it's nice to have the little

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boost um especially well like I said when you're loading games um

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particularly for multiplayer so yeah

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okay useful for gamers but most of the focus is on professionals professionals

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need the capacity professionals need the speed but don't necessarily want to

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compromise too much in either direction so that's where the Velociraptor 1 tab

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comes in we're actually going to be doing full coverage of this on ncx Tech

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tips so don't forget to subscribe to my ncixcom channel but I just wanted to

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take a couple minutes open her up show you guys what a velociraptor one

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terabyte looks like this is a 2 and a half inch thick drive so you can't just

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take it off the included adapter and throw it in a notebook it most likely

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won't fit it comes with a heat sink cuz this is a 10,000 RPM drive so that's

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where it gets the additional performance it also gets additional performance from

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its form factor the fact that it is a 2 1/2 in Drive compared to a 3 and 1/2 in

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Drive means that the platters are much smaller smaller platters means that your

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access times are much lower as well because the head physically doesn't have

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to move as far in order to access the data that you need the faster spinning

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platter also gives it additional sequential performance on both reads and

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rights which is again another advantage of magnetic storage over Solid State

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Storage if you're doing something very right intensive a velociraptor is

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probably a better solution than an SSD just due to the fact that ssds do

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eventually die I recently had an SSD die in my Windows home server actually uh

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which is a very right intensive application I was using it as my boot

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drive and it also throws it into the drive pool so for an application where

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it's going to get beat up like crazy uh magnetic may still be the way to go so

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there you go uh thank you for checking out oh right okay I should finished

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showing you guys the heat sink so it's got like this beastly heat sink on it which looks amazing it's awesome cool

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there you go uh it's also got an adapter right here so you're taking the smaller

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SATA interface and you're kind of moving it a little to the left it's actually a

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full siiz ATA interface you're moving it over here where you can easily plug it

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into a 3 and 1/2 in Bay in your system okay and right so why the heat snc

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because 10,000 RPM drives will run hotter unless you're cooling them so

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