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everyone's gonna love this video except Western Digital so I was in the market for a new hard drive I came across the Western Digital blue for $60 and then I came across the Western Digital black for $80 and now the difference is back in the day was that the Western Digital black used to have a significant performance advantage over the blue it also used to have more hardware on the drive and also used to edit just still does come with that five year warranty over the Blues two-year warranty however when I got both these drives in this is the 2012 edition this is the 2013 edition I was shocked to find that there was no difference practically no difference between these two drives physically I mean that weight was virtually identical between both drives and there was I think a different they used a different soldiering mask on the blue compared to the black and then other than that they also they used I guess in the top corner you can see there's only one little physical difference there so I mean physically these things were exactly the same oh and the black does get some extra processor on the drive itself which virtually makes no differences in the tests however when we got across to the test I was shocked the Westerners evil blue that I have here significantly outperform this Western Digital black as we can see in the ATO disk benchmark here the 8k winner when it first started out with the point 5 kilobyte transfer of reading rights it was pretty much about the same but when it got all the way up to 8 kilobits that's when things started to get scary I mean the western edge of the blue pulled away from the black by a lot so this is the cheaper drive performing better than the more expensive drive from the same company now I started a double check so I wanted to double check this I used a s SSD just to confirm the numbers and yes the reading rights on the blue was significantly faster than the blacks I mean we were talking 184 versus 160 on the actual reads and on the writes is about 164 versus 140 I mean I double-check this to I'd side of the switch drive port side side switch side reports even side of cables just to make sure these numbers were concrete and they were the Western legal blue was indeed outperforming the Western Digital black so I was like what is going on here West needle so in conclusion what can I say about the Western Digital black it's quite disappointing because in the past the black like I said before has always represented a better product whether it be having better hardware or having higher speeds but this time around with the black it seems like all you're paying for is pretty much a drive with extra warranty and I mean for 33 percent of the cost over a blue it's simply not recommended at those prices I'm quite disappointed with Western Digital because I've always loved them I've always had good experiences on Western Digital drives over this time I feel a little bit let down by the black considering this just at nothing extra as opposed to the blue also one thing to note that both drums will whisper quiet they'll really quiet drives the black the one thing I did notice though was that the black did run a little bit cooler than the blue and I'm guessing this is due to the fact that it just wasn't running as fast as the blue so yeah ultimately the blue was a better Drive than the black so I'm quite disappointed to say that where's my little blacks are pretty much not going to be getting recommended by me anymore until they offer a better product over the blue because this blue was outperforming the black anyway the failure rates again I'll say that as well the failure rates out of the factory are the same as well so if you get a blue or black they're going to have the same chance of failure out of the factory so all you're getting is an extra three-year warranty in some cases a drive that will perform slower than the cheaper variant anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please give a thumbs up if you have any comments or questions about this video and then leave them in the comment section below and I'll catch you guys with another tech video very soon peace out for now bye