Hitachi Deskstar 1TB Retail Box Hard Drive Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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this unboxing is more of a lead into an NC Tech tips topic that I'm going to be
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working on soon I'm going to actually be doing thanks to Hitachi actually big
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thanks to Hitachi for providing us with the drives for this topic but we are
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finally after many many many requests
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going to be doing an NC Tech tips on configuring raid so I'm going to be
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using the Hitachi deskstar 3 and 1/2 in
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drive this is a 7200 RPM drive with 32
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Megs of cach I have three drives in one
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capacity so I'm going to be showing raid zero raid 1 as well as raid 5 okay this
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is their HD 3100 series drive so this is
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their latest series of drives and I'm going to go ahead and open the box now
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this is I think the first time I've ever actually unboxed a retail box hard drive
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because mostly uh NCIX where I work being an online store we don't really
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stock a whole lot of retail box hard drives because uh it's a lot easier to
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just ship a drive than to ship a box so here is the packaging that it comes in
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clever little plastic thing then we have
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wow a hard drive installation guide I have never seen one of these before so
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they show you how to connect the SATA power and SATA data you can record your
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drive information in here if you want to
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uh talks about hitachi's warranty so Hitachi has a okay it says a
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onee 2ye threee or 5year so I don't know
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which one it is for this particular drive but let's you know what let's see
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if we can figure that out real quick hold on it couldn't be that complicated
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this drive has a three-year warranty it is green eco-friendly technology for
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industry-leading low power consumption okay so this is a an eco-friendly drive
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as well you've got four hard drive screws for installing the drive in your
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case you have a SATA cable for installing the drive into your
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motherboard and then here is the other side of the little plastic clam shell
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that holds the drive now Hitachi drives come in particularly shiny anti-st I
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bags that are also moisture barrier bags
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and theirs are completely sealed whereas Seagate just folds over a bag and then
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puts a sticker on it as I recall so you
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actually have to tear it open and you will find do not eat gel silica gel
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don't eat it and then you will find a
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hard drive so here is the Hitachi 1 tab hard drive that we are unboxing today it
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is also quite shiny you can see the label up close in HD if you'd like don't
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forget to set your uh your YouTube to HD so you can see that label and all its
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labeled glory and then you can flip it over and you can see the controller oh
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Controller made by LSI interesting didn't know that you can see
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cash you can see some other stuff uh you
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can see the SATA 2 interface so this is a SATA 2 drive so there's your power
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there's your data and it's a 3 and 1/2 in drive so it uses your standard 123 or
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one two uh um configuration for mounting
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it to your case so it's compatible with pretty much any case out there thank you
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for checking out my unboxing and I'm sorry for this incredibly pointless
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unboxing but I have a much better topic coming up so stay tuned and it will all
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be worth it don't forget to subscribe to both lus Tech tips as well as ncixcom