WD My Book Velociraptor Duo Thunderbolt External Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at something that we've kind of looked at
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before but not quite this is the Western
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Digital My Book Velociraptor Duo so
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we've already had a look at their other dual Drive Thunderbolt enclosure which
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actually had green drives inside which means you've got bigger capacity so that
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one was a 4 tbte model whereas this one
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is only 2 terab of total capacity but
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the big difference is this one instead of those screen drives which spin at a
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around 5,400 RPM has two drives that spin at 10,000 RPM so we're going to
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have more performance faster response times and lower capacity but more
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performance and faster response times which is what Thunderbolt is all about
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so let's see what WD I've already done my SPI but let's see what they think
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dramatic performance data protection and daisy chain flexibility cool 2 terabytes
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or up to 2 terabytes depending on how you configure it two WD Velociraptor
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10,000 RPM drives inside compatible with
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OSX 10 whatever you want to call it okay we're going to look at that when we open
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it up blazing speed from WD Velociraptor
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10,000 RPM driv revolutionary Thunderbolt interface okay so we pretty
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much covered this so let's open it up and have a look at what this one looks
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like compared to the other one that we did already unbox and I am expecting it
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to look very similar so we have a power brick we have really it includes a
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Thunderbolt cable but not wait yeah it includes a Thunderbolt cable oh that's
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awesome way to go WD for like Manning up
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and including the cable with these expensive Thunderbolt products love it
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good show okay moving right
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along oh it says that right on the box had I not gone through the box so
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quickly I might have noticed that it says Thunderbolt cable included and
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contents Thunderbolt cable but I like
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surprises that's half the fun of this unboxing channel it's like the surprise
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of not reading the box and then being surprised by things that shouldn't
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surprise us um you know what we should do just for giggle since I might not
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actually open the enclosure is uh we should go be surprised that we have a
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Western Digital Velociraptor and we should see if like
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uh so this is our Velociraptor let's just see if our Velociraptor is the same
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as their Velociraptor but let's take a look at the at the enclosure first so
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it's about the size of two 3 and 1 half in drives if you guys aren't sure of the
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scale and uh I would also love to do the traditional iPhone size comparison I
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know it's been a while since I've pulled this out but there you go iPhone size
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comparison so now you all will know how big it is lots of cooling you can see
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here there's passive ventilation going on in the bottom passive ventilation
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going going on in the top heat does naturally rise so you'll get cool air
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because these feet are so tall coming in through through the bottom of the
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enclosure and then up through the top I wouldn't recommend running this on a soft surface such as like on your bed
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next to your laptop although usually that probably wouldn't come up but I
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would recommend putting it down on a hard surface okay at the back of oh
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right indicator LED there it's hiding probably can't even see that on the
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camera don't worry about it on the back you've got your power in your Kensington lock because this baby is valuable
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you're going to want to lock that up if you were using it in
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public or as a store demo you know there's a valid reason for this um two
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Thunderbolt ports so these are passrs which means you can daisy chain up to
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six of these which would be just oh way
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too balling out so that would be 6 * 2 terabytes potentially with the whole
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thing running in raid zero off a 10 GB per section thund you know I wonder if I
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could convince WD to send me 10 uh six of these
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probably not okay let's have a look at the drives inside so I'm expecting these
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to be regular Velociraptor drives so you might as well look at the that while I
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open it so this is a 2 and 1/2 in Drive however it is a thicker form factor
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drive and it comes with a huge heat
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sink that allows it to stay cool and uh
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and and perform you know like it's 10,000 revolutions per minute that it
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that it does and here we go a so only
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only use WD Velociraptor drives now the other one was labeled only use green
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drives I don't know if this is firmware locked or anything like that but it's
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clearly nothing to do with the actual cooling capacity of the unit because
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they've taken their lowest power
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um coolest running drives and their highest power hottest running drives and
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they've put them both in this enclosure so maybe I'm overthinking this but yes
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it just has this handy dandy pull tab
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and other than that it looks the same as our Velociraptor down to the same part
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number two 1 TB Velociraptors and now
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they're like um now they're like dual
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Raptors thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the WD mybook
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Velociraptor Duo remember this is all about more performance and faster
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response times this is a professional grade product so if you were doing for
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example video editing then you might want something
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like this because it will be something that you can portably take with you with
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your footage you'll get the again the response time that you get from the faster RPM drives and the capacity that
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you need that's not always on for example um many modern notebooks that
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are equipped with Thunderbolts so you can get that storage and the speed and the I think I've repeated myself a few
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times so let's just finish up with
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um I don't know clowns