well I'm at it again up to my old tricks I am unboxing an oem hard drive but I
have a good reason for it this time I promise you I do so I'm going to zoom in
and tell you a little bit about this particular Drive first of all it is a
Western Digital 1 tbte drive and you know I can I can see you right now
saying whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa back up we've seen this before but no this is
something new okay so I'm going to zoom back in give you a closer look okay so
this is part of their black series and I okay seen this before but the special
thing about this particular Drive is that it is SATA 3 or SATA 6 gabit per
second compatible so that means that if you have one of the newer boards
particularly ASUS and Gigabyte have released a lot of SATA 3 ready boards
then you can actually hook this up to your SATA 3 controller now whether or
not you're going to see a huge performance Impact versus the older
Western Digital one TB black drives is
um not as clear but you should see higher burst speeds okay and you will
also be able to run it on that
controller now something else that they've added with this particular Drive
is that it has a 64 Meg cache now I'm not sure if you're going to be able to read that but right about there it says
it has a 64 Meg cache and most of the other blacks have a 32 Meg cache so I
have unbagged this drive I'm going to dump out the do not eat do not eat this
wow it's even in a bunch of different languages on this one that's very um
health conscious of Western Digital to
take care of that okay so why don't we start with the front of the drive this
is the front of the drive this is a standard 3 and 1/2 in OEM drive it
doesn't include any mounting screws or cables but what it does have is holes to
put mounting screws so you can put 1 2 3 here 1 two 3 here and that is how you
will Mount the drive or you can mount it with 1 2 3 4 at the bottom at the back
of the drive you will find oh it seems my cats want to help me unbox here look
do you like this yeah it's a hard drive okay why
don't you go on the floor thank you okay so at the back you will find and I would
normally say SATA power and SATA 2 Data
but today I will say SATA 3 data so there you go that is the biggest
difference between this and every other one tab Drive released by Western
Digital to date thank you for checking out my unboxing of the WD 1 tab black