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this is a state-of-the-art hard drive from Western Digital now it's not quite there fastest this is a WD caviar blue series drive their fastest consumer level 7200 rpm drives are actually their black series of drives but it does include the latest technologies in that hold on a second I'm doing the unboxing portion of the video now it is now unboxed do not eat this please okay oh hold on where'd it go where'd the information go oh the information was actually on this label aha okay so the NCIX label tells us that you can ever focus on it no over here thank you okay so this is a Western Digital WD caviar blue one terabyte SATA 6 gigabits per second 7200 rpm Drive so this ordinary-looking SATA interface back here this is a regular SATA power but this is not an ordinary SATA interface this is not SATA one not say to do but actually say two three six gigabit per second capable drive now what this means for performance is probably not a whole lot but if you do want to plug it into your SATA 6 gigabits per second motherboard and that will be satisfying to you then you can buy this SATA 6 gigabits per second hard drive and that will be satisfying to you now in the event that you do have any difficulty running this drive on a SATA 3 gigabit per second that is SATA to three gigabit per second port you can actually jumper pins 5 and 6 so that is these two here five and six okay and you can jumper those two ports in order to limit it to three gigabit per second and that should increase compatibility now also bear in mind about this drive is that another one of the ways it is advanced is the fact that it uses advanced format so advanced for Matt drives require additional installation steps please check your drive label to determine if your drive has advanced for and hold on a minute I don't actually know if this is an advanced format drive so it turns out that yes this is indeed an advanced format drive so what you'll want to do is make sure you go to the please focus focus there you go here's the head focus on the head so make sure that you go to the looks like the instructions are actually covered by this label which is awesome whatever if you go to the Western Digital website will walk you through all of the additional things you may need to do a hot WDC dot-com flash ad DV format advanced format and that will tell you what you need to do to make sure that your drive is running 100% so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the WD caviar blue SATA 3 6 gigabit per second dry and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and others computer videos don't need this Lucas focus focus aha there we go don't eat it