Linus Tech tips coverage of PS 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel
and steel series guys over the last little while we have had a metric butt
ton of WD stuff to give away we gave away a bunch of drives down at PS we had
people telling us about their storage configurations and doing embarrassing
stuff and getting external drives and internal drives for their trouble but
now we're following it up with the big giveaway we have eight 4 tbte WD red
drives to give away on the Linus Tech tips forum all you've got to do is post
in the thread and we'll be linking it in an annotation somewhere linking it in
the video description and tell us about your storage configuration with
particular emphasis on why you're using
the components you're using so a great example would be you know I use a boot
SSD because I wanted the speed but I have a hard drive because I needed extra
storage for my game because I have a big massive collection on Steam and uh you
know I would have an external drive but you know I can't afford one right now or
so would be a great example of like why you're using all the components you're
using so why would you want WD red drives well the answer is because
they're optimized for Nas so Nas is great because it allows you to
centralize your storage in one place it allows you your storage to be safer
because even in the event of a physical failure raid will often protect your
data and because you know they're rated for 24/7 operation they have 247 tech
support they've got their nasware firmware which means that they are not
going to you know fall of a raid they're validated with all the different ratings
enclosures and all that good stuff they're less susceptible to interference
from vibrations from surrounding drives and all those good things WD Reds will
definitely be a good part of whatever storage configuration you happen to tell
us about so guys check out the link in the forum for the full rules and
regulations and if you're not done watching this video go ahead and uh
check out this entertaining Montage all right so we have challenged uh this we
have we have challenged this uh contestant here who un fortunately had
the The Misfortune of recognizing us here in the crowd to gather at least
half a dozen people to stand and listen to him talk about how awesome WD is Ste
for boot and you had a single you had a one TB drive for storage so we'd like to
double your storage today uh so that's a two terab drive for storage so thank you
very much for participating thank you all right and then for the other guys
here I'm going to give away at least uh oh I've got some good stuff in here so
I'd like to have the let's see what should we make them
do going can make
it all right he doesn't even know what he's winning yet that's the best part of
this all right let's go
man yeah so I need you to I need you to I need you to do a lap of this Courtyard
screaming Western Digital and if I can't hear you from here when you're in that
other corner it's not going to count and I'm going to send you around again okay
you
down get some crowd reaction here we got some uh
I got I got one of these for you though this is a one tab wdm passport external
drive so thank you very much for participating in our extremely
humiliating uh well you've got a Western Digital
black so you clearly appreciate high performance hard drives I want you to
take this one tab Western Digital Velociraptor I want you to upgrade that
drive all right thanks man thanks I want you to go from 500 terab
which is actually 500 gigs that's okay we all make that mistake I want you to
have a one TB Blue Drive take that so you're going to have more storage now
and since you already have uh pretty pretty rocking setup you're going to get
an external drive this is a one TB my passport from WD so uh I didn't even
really make you guys do anything for it this time around but the sheer spectacle
of someone handing me an optical drive to sign was uh was worth it for me where
do you want it thep all right there we
go I mean you decide what put computer
anyway all right thanks guys really nice to meet you all
right a wd one tbte my passport so you
can use that as external storage it's USB 3 so you can install you can run
Steam off of it you can just put your music movies and all your cool files on
there no big deal oh that's awesome awesome no no there's more there's more
all right so I have either a velociraptor 1 TB giving you the maximum
in speed but lesser capacity or I have a
wd green 2 tbte this is the new generation ezrx Drive which actually
performs significantly better than the last gen Green Drive I got to go with
the Raptor you're going to go with the Raptor okay now because you did manage
to get some high fives I'd like you to pick a winner out of your compatriots
here who hasn't won already all right well you have one uh on the basis of his
humiliating act a terab Western Digital Green Drive can you tell me about the
storage configuration in your computer with particular emphasis on why you have
the components you have all right I have a 240 Corsair
SSD and that is it that's it so you have
no storage at all why don't you have any storage really well I just bought it and
I didn't want to spend the money on Extra Storage so this is very good
timing for you very much so run I just
run a Western Digital black drive a terabyte yep I like to keep it on single
Drive I don't like to do raid or anything 120 gig ocz SSD as a boot drive
and then on top of that for my mass storage I have a 500 tbte Western
Digital uh caviar blue I
believe uh for yeah mass storage cuz it's a solid drive a 120 gig 840 SSD for
boot and programs and then I have a one
tbte black Western Digital Drive for
storage and games probably awesome I
need more excuse me sir can you help me
what am I doing I need to win so I need you to help me chant about Western
Digital yeah so he's good at
this that guy works here can you help me win some Western
Digital stuff excellent we need to lead a chance
so no I don't please to quiet a you sir
you look braver than her I need you to help me to win some Western Digital swag
yes we got a chant so come
here we have more excellent people just multiply so I
believe our chant is Western Digital is awesome you got to make it loud all
right so the joy of help all right so it's
going to be Western Digital is awesome all right Western Digital is awesome I
think got do that again it's not a chant if it's
once digit is awesome digit is awesome West digital is
awesome West digital is
awesome all right why do you run what
you run because you told me to I picked up a couple of Western Digital red and
I'm running them in uh in uh raid
whatever the good one is all the redundancy I got 3 terabytes now cuz I
kept losing all my stuff wow that's actually that's pretty good that's if
it's not a lie it's the best one someone's come up with no that's up do
you use uh do you use an SSD for your OS I do I've got a
240 Samsung all right cool let me make
sure that I have something in here that is going to uh make a whole lot of sense
for you ah yes we do okay so you have a
great internal storage config already here's a one tab wdm passport thank you
so much so now you can you can have your data be safe and you can even carry a
whack ton of it around with you on the Fly thank you so much lus and Western
Digital and you guys are awesome thanks man cheers