Western Digital Blue 1TB SATA3 6Gb/s Hard Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2011-05-08
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this is a state-ofthe-art hard drive
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from Western Digital now it's not quite their fastest this is a wd caviar blue
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series Drive their fastest consumer level 7200 RPM drives are actually their
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black series of drives but it does include the latest Technologies in
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that hold on a second I'm doing the unboxing portion of the video now it is
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now unboxed
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do not eat this please
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okay oh hold on where' it go where did
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the information go oh the information was actually on
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this label aha okay so the ncx label
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tells us that we can ever focus on it
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hello over here thank you okay so this is a Western Digital WD caviar blue 1
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tbte SATA 6 gabit per second in 7200 RPM
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drive so this ordinary looking SATA interface back here this is a regular
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SATA power but this is not an ordinary SATA interface this is not SATA 1 not
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SATA 2 but actually SATA 3 6 gbit per
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second capable drive now what this means for performance is probably not a whole
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lot but if you do want to plug it into your SATA 6 GB per second motherboard
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and that will be satisfying to you then you can buy this this SATA 6 gbit per
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second hard drive and that will be satisfying to you now in the event that
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you do have any difficulty running this drive on a SATA 3 gbit per second that
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is SATA 2 3 gbit per second Port you can
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actually jumper pins five and six so
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that is these two here five and six okay
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and you can jumper those two ports in order to limit it to 3 gbit per second
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and that should increase compatibility now also bear in mind about this drive
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is that another one of the ways it is Advanced is the fact that it uses
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Advanced format so Advanced format
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drives require additional installation steps please check your drive label to
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determine if your drive has advanced format and hold on a
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minute I don't actually know if this is an advanced format drive so it turns out
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that yes this is indeed an advanced format drive so what you'll want to do
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is make sure you go to the please focus focus there you go
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here's the hand focus on the hand so make sure that you go to
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the it looks like uh the instructions
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are actually covered by this label which is awesome whatever if you go to the
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Western Digital website it'll walk you through all of the additional things you
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may need to do aha at wdc.com
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idv format Advanced format and that'll
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tell you what you need to do to make sure that your drive is running 100% so
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thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the WD caviar blue
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SATA 36 gbit per second Drive don't
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forget to subscribe to lineus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other
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computer videos don't eat
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this focus
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focus focus aha there we go don't e it