WD Red 4TB GIVEAWAY & PAX Giveaways!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of PS 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel
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and steel series guys over the last little while we have had a metric butt
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ton of WD stuff to give away we gave away a bunch of drives down at PS we had
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people telling us about their storage configurations and doing embarrassing
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stuff and getting external drives and internal drives for their trouble but
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now we're following it up with the big giveaway we have eight 4 tbte WD red
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drives to give away on the Linus Tech tips forum all you've got to do is post
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in the thread and we'll be linking it in an annotation somewhere linking it in
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the video description and tell us about your storage configuration with
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particular emphasis on why you're using
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the components you're using so a great example would be you know I use a boot
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SSD because I wanted the speed but I have a hard drive because I needed extra
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storage for my game because I have a big massive collection on Steam and uh you
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know I would have an external drive but you know I can't afford one right now or
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so would be a great example of like why you're using all the components you're
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using so why would you want WD red drives well the answer is because
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they're optimized for Nas so Nas is great because it allows you to
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centralize your storage in one place it allows you your storage to be safer
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because even in the event of a physical failure raid will often protect your
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data and because you know they're rated for 24/7 operation they have 247 tech
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support they've got their nasware firmware which means that they are not
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going to you know fall of a raid they're validated with all the different ratings
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enclosures and all that good stuff they're less susceptible to interference
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from vibrations from surrounding drives and all those good things WD Reds will
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definitely be a good part of whatever storage configuration you happen to tell
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us about so guys check out the link in the forum for the full rules and
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regulations and if you're not done watching this video go ahead and uh
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check out this entertaining Montage all right so we have challenged uh this we
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have we have challenged this uh contestant here who un fortunately had
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the The Misfortune of recognizing us here in the crowd to gather at least
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half a dozen people to stand and listen to him talk about how awesome WD is Ste
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for boot and you had a single you had a one TB drive for storage so we'd like to
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double your storage today uh so that's a two terab drive for storage so thank you
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very much for participating thank you all right and then for the other guys
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here I'm going to give away at least uh oh I've got some good stuff in here so
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I'd like to have the let's see what should we make them
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do going can make
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it all right he doesn't even know what he's winning yet that's the best part of
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this all right let's go
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man yeah so I need you to I need you to I need you to do a lap of this Courtyard
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screaming Western Digital and if I can't hear you from here when you're in that
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other corner it's not going to count and I'm going to send you around again okay
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you
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down get some crowd reaction here we got some uh
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I got I got one of these for you though this is a one tab wdm passport external
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drive so thank you very much for participating in our extremely
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humiliating uh well you've got a Western Digital
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black so you clearly appreciate high performance hard drives I want you to
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take this one tab Western Digital Velociraptor I want you to upgrade that
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drive all right thanks man thanks I want you to go from 500 terab
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which is actually 500 gigs that's okay we all make that mistake I want you to
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have a one TB Blue Drive take that so you're going to have more storage now
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and since you already have uh pretty pretty rocking setup you're going to get
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an external drive this is a one TB my passport from WD so uh I didn't even
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really make you guys do anything for it this time around but the sheer spectacle
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of someone handing me an optical drive to sign was uh was worth it for me where
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do you want it thep all right there we
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go I mean you decide what put computer
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anyway all right thanks guys really nice to meet you all
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right a wd one tbte my passport so you
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can use that as external storage it's USB 3 so you can install you can run
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Steam off of it you can just put your music movies and all your cool files on
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there no big deal oh that's awesome awesome no no there's more there's more
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all right so I have either a velociraptor 1 TB giving you the maximum
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in speed but lesser capacity or I have a
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wd green 2 tbte this is the new generation ezrx Drive which actually
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performs significantly better than the last gen Green Drive I got to go with
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the Raptor you're going to go with the Raptor okay now because you did manage
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to get some high fives I'd like you to pick a winner out of your compatriots
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here who hasn't won already all right well you have one uh on the basis of his
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humiliating act a terab Western Digital Green Drive can you tell me about the
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storage configuration in your computer with particular emphasis on why you have
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the components you have all right I have a 240 Corsair
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SSD and that is it that's it so you have
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no storage at all why don't you have any storage really well I just bought it and
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I didn't want to spend the money on Extra Storage so this is very good
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timing for you very much so run I just
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run a Western Digital black drive a terabyte yep I like to keep it on single
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Drive I don't like to do raid or anything 120 gig ocz SSD as a boot drive
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and then on top of that for my mass storage I have a 500 tbte Western
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Digital uh caviar blue I
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believe uh for yeah mass storage cuz it's a solid drive a 120 gig 840 SSD for
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boot and programs and then I have a one
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tbte black Western Digital Drive for
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storage and games probably awesome I
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need more excuse me sir can you help me
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what am I doing I need to win so I need you to help me chant about Western
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Digital yeah so he's good at
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this that guy works here can you help me win some Western
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Digital stuff excellent we need to lead a chance
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so no I don't please to quiet a you sir
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you look braver than her I need you to help me to win some Western Digital swag
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yes we got a chant so come
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here we have more excellent people just multiply so I
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believe our chant is Western Digital is awesome you got to make it loud all
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right so the joy of help all right so it's
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going to be Western Digital is awesome all right Western Digital is awesome I
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think got do that again it's not a chant if it's
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once digit is awesome digit is awesome West digital is
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awesome West digital is
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awesome all right why do you run what
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you run because you told me to I picked up a couple of Western Digital red and
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I'm running them in uh in uh raid
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whatever the good one is all the redundancy I got 3 terabytes now cuz I
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kept losing all my stuff wow that's actually that's pretty good that's if
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it's not a lie it's the best one someone's come up with no that's up do
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you use uh do you use an SSD for your OS I do I've got a
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240 Samsung all right cool let me make
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sure that I have something in here that is going to uh make a whole lot of sense
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for you ah yes we do okay so you have a
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great internal storage config already here's a one tab wdm passport thank you
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so much so now you can you can have your data be safe and you can even carry a
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whack ton of it around with you on the Fly thank you so much lus and Western
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Digital and you guys are awesome thanks man cheers