this is a state-ofthe-art hard drive
from Western Digital now it's not quite their fastest this is a wd caviar blue
series Drive their fastest consumer level 7200 RPM drives are actually their
black series of drives but it does include the latest Technologies in
that hold on a second I'm doing the unboxing portion of the video now it is
now unboxed
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okay oh hold on where' it go where did
the information go oh the information was actually on
this label aha okay so the ncx label
tells us that we can ever focus on it
hello over here thank you okay so this is a Western Digital WD caviar blue 1
tbte SATA 6 gabit per second in 7200 RPM
drive so this ordinary looking SATA interface back here this is a regular
SATA power but this is not an ordinary SATA interface this is not SATA 1 not
SATA 2 but actually SATA 3 6 gbit per
second capable drive now what this means for performance is probably not a whole
lot but if you do want to plug it into your SATA 6 GB per second motherboard
and that will be satisfying to you then you can buy this this SATA 6 gbit per
second hard drive and that will be satisfying to you now in the event that
you do have any difficulty running this drive on a SATA 3 gbit per second that
is SATA 2 3 gbit per second Port you can
actually jumper pins five and six so
that is these two here five and six okay
and you can jumper those two ports in order to limit it to 3 gbit per second
and that should increase compatibility now also bear in mind about this drive
is that another one of the ways it is Advanced is the fact that it uses
Advanced format so Advanced format
drives require additional installation steps please check your drive label to
determine if your drive has advanced format and hold on a
minute I don't actually know if this is an advanced format drive so it turns out
that yes this is indeed an advanced format drive so what you'll want to do
is make sure you go to the please focus focus there you go
here's the hand focus on the hand so make sure that you go to
the it looks like uh the instructions
are actually covered by this label which is awesome whatever if you go to the
Western Digital website it'll walk you through all of the additional things you
may need to do aha at wdc.com
idv format Advanced format and that'll
tell you what you need to do to make sure that your drive is running 100% so
thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the WD caviar blue
SATA 36 gbit per second Drive don't
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