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in dual processors in order to make it perform even better at the time than an equivalent 7200 RPM drive and this is in lined with that concept that it's not all about rpm because how does it perform better if it spins at the same speed waltz more complicated than that so what is it black dry for well it's for people who don't want to worry about their drive dying for one thing it comes with a five-year warranty which for a consumer hard drive is actually the highest available so you go ahead you build yourself a system with an Asus Tough Series board a WD black edition drive you throw like you know I don't know corsair Memory in there with a lifetime warranty all of a sudden you've got a system where you're going to have backing for like five years on the main components inside you don't have to worry about them failing it's also still the highest performance three and a half inch consumer drive in western digital's lineup and optimized for applications where a lower-end hard drive isn't really appropriate things where that extra little bit of performance might make a lot of sense things like a scratch disk if you're working in Adobe Premiere or after effects or something along those lines and where an SSD might not make a ton of sense like a scratch disk I love SSD as much as the next person you guys know that but at the end of the day if you're if you have you know swap files going back and forth to them or you're using it as a scratch and you're writing you know 10 gigs plot our tent however much if you're writing a ton of data to and from your SSD all the time every day in a workstation great environment there's a very good chance it won't last as long as a hard drive because they do have an inherent limited life cycle when it comes to rights so let's have a look at what kind of systems you might find a WD black in this one here is a Puget systems gaming system it's got a four terabyte WD black in it it should be noted that for terabyte is the highest capacity in western digital's desktop lineup right now both red and green do top out at three terabytes with blue topping out at one terabyte and this is well basically to optimize things like game load times and no they're not going to be as fast as if you put the games on an SSD we all know this but your SSD is probably anywhere from 60 gigs to 240 gigs if you bought it sometime in the last few years your hard drive is anywhere from 500 gigs to 4 terabytes which means you can fit a lot more games on it and here's an example of another similar type of system whether it's a gaming machine or a workstation that you might find some kind of a WD black storage solution and this is the H frame additional eat from komplette extreme and what's cool about this particular system other than the fact that it's great for high performance applications is that it is able to passively cool not only everything inside it if you get a good angle at this I'm going to go ahead and tilt it over here and hopefully I'm not going to like break it or anything but check that out it is a very open air flow system and because it is constructed from pieces of aluminum you can see that the cooling solution over here for the drive because remember blacks do not operate as cool as something like a green or red drive the cooling solution allows these aluminum pieces to go right up against the drive and dissipate the heat passively into the rest of the case which leads us to the traditional one if you loved the caviar back when WD had that branding then you'll pretty much love the blue because it's an extension of it it's only available in capacities up to one terabyte which by today's standards might not seem like for you know the savvy you know developed market consume like that impressive especially when the black is available with up to 4 terabytes in a single consumer grade device but for emerging markets where they don't necessarily have the need for an as special drive or they don't need a five millimeter slim drive or a seven millimeter slim drive because they're not using those kinds of devices yet Blue makes a lot of sense because here you go the original the original award-winning desktop hard drive quality and reliability it's been around forever the technology may not be cutting edge but that's almost the beauty of it is that it's not cutting edge it's something that we're very familiar with at this point now something you might not be familiar with at this point is the fact that not only the blue but every WD hard drive comes with a copy of WD acronis true image comes with it for free I had no idea the fact that I've never heard of this was like unbelievable because the great thing about acronis is that it works a lot of the bundled drive cloning software that's out there doesn't work or its buggy or it crashes or whatever else I wouldn't trust it it's powered by acronis yay thumbs up anyway guys don't miss any of our computex 2013 coverage and don't forget to check out all of our WD videos because the more views we get the more awesome stuff we get to give away after the show