Western Digital 1TB Black SATA 6.0Gb/s SATA3 Hard Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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519 words · ~2 min read
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well I'm at it again up to my old tricks I am unboxing an oem hard drive but I
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have a good reason for it this time I promise you I do so I'm going to zoom in
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and tell you a little bit about this particular Drive first of all it is a
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Western Digital 1 tbte drive and you know I can I can see you right now
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saying whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa back up we've seen this before but no this is
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something new okay so I'm going to zoom back in give you a closer look okay so
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this is part of their black series and I okay seen this before but the special
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thing about this particular Drive is that it is SATA 3 or SATA 6 gabit per
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second compatible so that means that if you have one of the newer boards
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particularly ASUS and Gigabyte have released a lot of SATA 3 ready boards
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then you can actually hook this up to your SATA 3 controller now whether or
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not you're going to see a huge performance Impact versus the older
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Western Digital one TB black drives is
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um not as clear but you should see higher burst speeds okay and you will
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also be able to run it on that
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controller now something else that they've added with this particular Drive
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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
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it has a 64 Meg cache and most of the other blacks have a 32 Meg cache so I
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have unbagged this drive I'm going to dump out the do not eat do not eat this
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wow it's even in a bunch of different languages on this one that's very um
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health conscious of Western Digital to
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take care of that okay so why don't we start with the front of the drive this
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is the front of the drive this is a standard 3 and 1/2 in OEM drive it
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doesn't include any mounting screws or cables but what it does have is holes to
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put mounting screws so you can put 1 2 3 here 1 two 3 here and that is how you
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will Mount the drive or you can mount it with 1 2 3 4 at the bottom at the back
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of the drive you will find oh it seems my cats want to help me unbox here look
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do you like this yeah it's a hard drive okay why
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don't you go on the floor thank you okay so at the back you will find and I would
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normally say SATA power and SATA 2 Data
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but today I will say SATA 3 data so there you go that is the biggest
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difference between this and every other one tab Drive released by Western
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Digital to date thank you for checking out my unboxing of the WD 1 tab black