today I'm going to be taking a look at the Western Digital my book for terabyte
hard drives so I picked up two these hard drives they're actually pretty
affordable I got these at one 29.99 but that was on a deal so you can find them
for a goal 149 15999 but still $300 for 8 terabytes is a really good deal it's a
really affordable price for everybody so for me I was able to move everything
over to these drives and it worked really well I actually have it in a raid
so I have a total of 8 terabytes showing his onedrive raid combines the drives
and the speeds together so it's pretty quick USB 3 I'll show you guys what you
get in the box and I'll show you guys a little bit of speed test so stay tuned
so we have the 4 terabyte model and like I said before I picked up two of these
guys so this is the box that you guys get here and then on the inside
and this was the information booklet that they give you so basically it's
like the warranty how to use it how to plug it in if you're unsure so this is
the actual hard drive right here again don't why my fingerprints I noticed a
new design on this I mean that probably doesn't matter but I've had the my books
before and it was kind of cool to see that change so this is like the power
indication light it flashes when the drives are active and then on the back
here you have the USB 3.0 and then you have your input power input that's an
external brick so it's an external power supply and then the Kingston Lock if
you're in an all office your public atmosphere you can lock it up gotta got
a few vent holes and I remember opening these so you can actually just open up
the case and pull the drives out that's actually why we used to buy them because
they were pretty cheap and still really good hard drives so that's what you guys
get in the box you do get a three meter long USB cable USB 3.0 and then the
power brick is actually a modest size I'd say it's six meters long so that's
pretty good and now I'll show you guys some of the speeds with them just about
half full so at about three terabytes to show you what you can expect on USB see
at a raid zero okay so we're back on a Mac here B the same thing with PC I'm
using the disk utility for software raid at a raid zero with Windows there'd be
different raid software that you would use so this is just in reference for Mac
but speeds would be relatively the same with each system now both drives are on
and active as you can see here so I've pulled up our trusty black magic and
I'll run a speed test on it so I've selected the disk and you get about a
hundred and ninety sometimes two hundred megabits read or write speeds and then
it's 250 read depending on if the drives busy I tried to shut everything off so
nothing should be accessing the drive but there you go so for home use 8
terabytes total or you could have them as 4 terabytes but it would be about
half the read and write speed as this although I was hitting about 110 120
megabits read and write with the drives not in raid 2 so still a very good fast
home solution for a lot of media stores so really good if you host a media
server or like me if you have a youtube channel and you have a ton of raw data
raw video that you are needing to store and that's what I'm using these drives
for so thanks for watching guys definitely would recommend the my book 4
terabyte drives if you're looking for something this cheap and will work
really good for you and definitely check out the raid if you're looking for
faster speeds thanks for watching see you guys again next time