1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:06,120 this is a state-ofthe-art hard drive 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:12,240 from Western Digital now it's not quite their fastest this is a wd caviar blue 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:18,080 series Drive their fastest consumer level 7200 RPM drives are actually their 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:24,199 black series of drives but it does include the latest Technologies in 5 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:30,359 that hold on a second I'm doing the unboxing portion of the video now it is 6 00:00:27,119 --> 00:00:30,359 now unboxed 7 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:36,440 do not eat this please 8 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:41,960 okay oh hold on where' it go where did 9 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:48,840 the information go oh the information was actually on 10 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:52,160 this label aha okay so the ncx label 11 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:54,440 tells us that we can ever focus on it 12 00:00:52,160 --> 00:01:01,320 hello over here thank you okay so this is a Western Digital WD caviar blue 1 13 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:04,320 tbte SATA 6 gabit per second in 7200 RPM 14 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:08,920 drive so this ordinary looking SATA interface back here this is a regular 15 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:15,640 SATA power but this is not an ordinary SATA interface this is not SATA 1 not 16 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:18,600 SATA 2 but actually SATA 3 6 gbit per 17 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:23,759 second capable drive now what this means for performance is probably not a whole 18 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:29,240 lot but if you do want to plug it into your SATA 6 GB per second motherboard 19 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:34,360 and that will be satisfying to you then you can buy this this SATA 6 gbit per 20 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:38,799 second hard drive and that will be satisfying to you now in the event that 21 00:01:36,759 --> 00:01:46,200 you do have any difficulty running this drive on a SATA 3 gbit per second that 22 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:49,200 is SATA 2 3 gbit per second Port you can 23 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:52,200 actually jumper pins five and six so 24 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:54,560 that is these two here five and six okay 25 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:59,079 and you can jumper those two ports in order to limit it to 3 gbit per second 26 00:01:57,039 --> 00:02:03,119 and that should increase compatibility now also bear in mind about this drive 27 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:07,799 is that another one of the ways it is Advanced is the fact that it uses 28 00:02:04,719 --> 00:02:09,679 Advanced format so Advanced format 29 00:02:07,799 --> 00:02:12,800 drives require additional installation steps please check your drive label to 30 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:17,120 determine if your drive has advanced format and hold on a 31 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:21,560 minute I don't actually know if this is an advanced format drive so it turns out 32 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:26,480 that yes this is indeed an advanced format drive so what you'll want to do 33 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:31,319 is make sure you go to the please focus focus there you go 34 00:02:29,519 --> 00:02:35,239 here's the hand focus on the hand so make sure that you go to 35 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:40,879 the it looks like uh the instructions 36 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:44,360 are actually covered by this label which is awesome whatever if you go to the 37 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:50,720 Western Digital website it'll walk you through all of the additional things you 38 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:53,879 may need to do aha at wdc.com 39 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:55,159 idv format Advanced format and that'll 40 00:02:53,879 --> 00:02:59,400 tell you what you need to do to make sure that your drive is running 100% so 41 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:05,239 thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the WD caviar blue 42 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:06,879 SATA 36 gbit per second Drive don't 43 00:03:05,239 --> 00:03:10,319 forget to subscribe to lineus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other 44 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:16,640 computer videos don't eat 45 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:18,280 this focus 46 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:23,840 focus focus aha there we go don't e it