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storage storage storage storage why am i running out of storage every single time I think it's because I'm a content creator I'm sure most content creators are there could relate to this because we all need storage to pack up our footage and it is one of those things where we try to we struggle to find the right solution but that's why I'm here for so what's up guys were here with hurricane axe and I'm currently in the midst of upgrading my storage sub in order to archive the footage that goes into creating these videos now typically every project that I've worked here for hurricane acts ranges between 15 to 30 gigabytes depending on its complexity but most importantly organizing the footage the After Effects log files Premiere files and other miscellaneous items takes time but one of the key factors to consider when upgrading sword setups is particularly finding a one-size-fits-all solution that can host previous projects but also being able to access them instantly is crucial now initially I started with a one terabyte Western Digital black drive which housed some of my games and footage but over time that kept filling up so I had to add another one terabyte drive and then another one and then a four terabyte drive almost to a point where you know I would be looking for spare drives in the studio to offload some of the footage and continue with my project it really was a hindrance to my workflow I was using this external drive bay from Silverstone that featured four three-and-a-half inch bays which obviously were populated plus they were running at USB 3 speeds which was great but the drives were slower to access plus I wasn't able to configure a rate set up given that I've been mixed matching hard drives so yeah not really ideal for content creators finally Western Digital reached out and asked us to check out their new my book duo desktop raid storage system and given my current dilemma this was just perfect timing so let me walk you through the setup process and of course the performance gain that I was able to get after switching to the system right after a message from our sponsor it's time to try something new with the key 900m mechanical keyboard by Zalman with kale brown switches on board macro recordings and absolutely gorgeous RGB illumination with the white frame even your dog will go nuts check it out in the description below alright so I'm not exactly sure if you guys care about design for an external storage system but if you do WD has done a fantastic job in that department the chassis is primarily made out of plastic materials which really isn't a bad thing since this is meant to be stationary at your desk plus it helps bring down the cost of the system which I'll go over shortly the bottom half of the Bay features these streamlined textures which looks similar to the my passport SSD I looked at a while back and here's a quick comparison plus you can check out that video right over here the subtle white LED indicator spans across the front side of the unit which looks quite unique in my opinion but I'd love to hear your thoughts on the design in the comments price-wise you're looking at 260 dollars for the 4 terabyte base model adding another 2 terabytes will cost you an extra thirty dollars the a terabyte variant goes for three hundred and thirty dollars at an extra four terabytes you're looking at 420 bumping that up to 16 terabytes will run you $600 and finally the top-of-the-line 20 terabyte model which I have over here costs $800 the dual comes with the rate optimized WD red drives which are well known to deliver high-speed quality storage to rely on and this model has 210 terabyte drives now when you compare that to the standalone price saying each Drive would run you around $400 so from a value perspective the dual makes a lot more sense since you're getting a solid enclosure and the necessary software to get you up and running ask for ports the dual features 2 USB 3.1 genuine type 8 connectors but be mindful that this interface is simply a rebrand of USB 3.0 plus you can use these ports as a hub to connect other USB devices so that's awesome there's also a single 3.1 gen one type-c connector which is the main USB interface to connect the device to the computer and there's the standard 12 volt power in do you note that this protocol is reverse compatible with USB 3.0 and 2.0 standards and thankfully out of the box WD includes USB 3.1 genuine type C to type C cable a type C to type a cable and the power adapter West midgel has built a solid reputation for themselves in the reliability department and that includes taking proper security measures there's a built-in 256 bit AES hardware encryption module and when you set it up with W DS security software your data is secured so for instance if someone decides to walk the dual containing your personal files well they'd be out of luck because they need a password in order to unlock the drive in the first place but most importantly I'm glad that Western Digital has included this feature because obviously having these drives inside your main PC is a lot more secure than having it externally but at least we you know we have something like this to keep our data secure the dual is also cross compatible with both PC and Mac so users who are invested in both ecosystems are not left out of the equation which is awesome the dual is user serviceable if you need to replace or add storage later on to access the drives you will have to open the top lid from the rear edge of the unit with the included disk replacement tool each hard drive is held in place by a tray and it features a latch which can be gently pressed to unlatch the drive and you can easily slide that out just be mindful that the duo does not support the hot-swappable function when removing or handing a hard drive while it's powered on WD highly recommends that you powered down the unit and proceed with the teardown process before I wrap up this review I wanted to show you guys a little bit of issue that I've been experiencing with the dual system so essentially it's kind of weird so what I'm gonna do is actually gonna restart my pc and let's just wait for it to boot up so the problem is ever since i've connected that to my pc my meme or obsession PC my system takes a while to boot up so let's say you normally you know I have an already 400 which is an nvme SSD so typically my boot times are roughly like 10 seconds to get it up and running within to the desktop but after connecting that guy my boot up times have prolonged significantly which is a bit of a problem and I think part of that is due to the i/o being initialized on my Rison PC so I think it's you know every time when you boot up your system it has to initialize the i/o the the memory the CPU I think the GPU as well so yeah as you can see this is this is kind of what I've been experiencing ever since I've connected that not even sure if this is a common thing with external storage solutions so yeah there we go I think we're booting into Windows but it's a good thing to note since I have the 20 terabyte Varian the 210 terabyte WD red drives were configured in raid 0 out of the box to deliver maximum speed and capacity and that's kind of what I need if I want to edit off the duel within premier but the user always has the option to configure the drives to raid one for redundancy or use it as two independent drives and all of this came managed through the WD utility software so the setup was pretty straightforward I connected the system to my PC installed the utility software the security software and the backup software and the first thing I did was run a few benchmarks to see how well it is compared to my previous setup starting with synthetic benchmarks I fired up crystal disk mark and tested the duel by setting the number of tests at 5 and a file size of 1 gigabyte and the results were pretty darn impressive now as you can see the dual dished out roughly 336 megabytes per second on reads and roughly 300 megabytes per second on writes whereas the single blue drive dished out 120 megabytes per second on reads and 118 megabytes per second on writes moving on to a tortoise benchmark a program that tests that drives read and write speeds using incremental file sizes the duel as expected takes the lead once again dishing out well over 380 megabytes per second in both read and write performance whereas the single WD Blue Drive scored 125 megabytes per second on read and 118 megabytes per second on the right test on to some real-world tests I transferred a 47 gigabyte folder packed with 4k videos back and forth between the desktop and the drives so starting with a duo that whole folder took 2 minutes and 42 seconds to transfer averaging between 280 to 300 megabytes per second right performing that backwards was a bit faster because the read speeds were topping at 366 megabytes per second so that shaved like 30 seconds compared to the write test and to give you a little bit of a perspective I perform the same test on the my passport SSD from WD and believe it or not the duel and the passport were almost neck to neck with those read and write tests which was fantastic raid 0 for the win guys lastly the single blue drive took a while to complete both tasks but that was expected considering that drives of specifications well the results really do speak for themselves and I'm glad that I switched the duo from Western Digital because now I can instantly access files and also given the terrific read and write performance of this system I can edit directly off of this system within premiere which is fantastic but most importantly I have 20 terabytes to work with so it is great to have so much space and not worry about that in the long run now eventually when those 20 terabytes fill up I have to replace both drives at the same time because they are configuring raid zero so you can only work with two drives at the same time but it's but the upgrade process is actually very straightforward you can just use the disk replacement tool and just swap it out and swap it back in with the new drives and you're good to go so I'd love to hear your thoughts on the dual external RAID storage system from Western Digital what do you guys think about it I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments down below most specifically would you consider going this route versus picking up two separate Western Digital red drives let me know in the comments down below any Burghardt connects thank you so much for watching make sure to subscribe for more similar content and we'll see you in the next one